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Unit 5 Brunswick Centre London WC1N 1AF

2011/2300/LListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 1 July 2011

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Installation of air extract and ductwork in connection with the change of use from retail shop (Class A1) to restaurant and cafe (Class A3).

Received
6 May 2011
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bloomsbury
  1. Received6 May
  2. Validated26 May
  3. Consult.30 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided1 Jul

Decided in 36 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application for a change of use at Unit 5 Brunswick Centre London WC1N 1AF. Camden has handled 1,652 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 395 applications across Bloomsbury. We hold 1,071 applications in total for the WC1N postcode area.

97% of heritage applications at London Borough of Camden were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
WC1N 1AF
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Development type
A3 Restaurants and Cafes
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 May 2011
Consultation start
9 June 2011
Last date for comments
30 June 2011
Permission expires
1 July 2014

Additional information

Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Bloomsbury
  • Listed building: (West side) 1-877a O'Donnell Court, 1-212a Foundling Court, Renoir Cinema, shops (The Bru…On or next to this site
  • Article 4 direction: Basements
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Associated applications

  1. 2011
    6 May

    Change of use of unit 5 (lower ground) from retail shop (Class A1) to restaurant and cafe (Class A3) and…

    RefusedFull Planning PermissionFiled alongside2011/2298/P
  2. 2011
    6 May

    Installation of air extract and ductwork in connection with the change of use from retail shop (Class A1) to…

    This applicationApprovedHeritage2011/2300/L

Source: Camden

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