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343-345 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8PX

2011/3370/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 2 September 2011

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

Alterations including partial use of basement as hotel guest rooms (Class C1), installation of windows to side elevation at basement level, relocation of kitchen extract duct on rear elevation, and installation of new shop front at ground floor restaurant (Class A3).

Received
8 July 2011
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Kings Cross
  1. Received8 Jul
  2. Validated28 Jul
  3. Consult.18 Aug
  4. Target
  5. Decided2 Sep

Decided in 36 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for window replacement at 343-345 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8PX. Camden has handled 2,296 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 King's Cross and St Pancras conservation area, with 7 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 144 applications across Kings Cross. We hold 1,230 applications in total for the WC1X postcode area.

90% of full 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
WC1X 8PX
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
A3 Restaurants and Cafes, C1 Hotel
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 July 2011
Consultation expiry
18 August 2011
Consultation start
28 July 2011
Consultation end
18 August 2011
Last date for comments
1 September 2011
Permission expires
2 September 2014

Publicity

Site notice start
3 August 2011

Additional information

Documents
20

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Kings Cross St Pancras
  • Article 4 direction: Basements+1 more
  • 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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Source: Camden

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