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The Museum Tavern 49 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3BA

2011/3785/TCTables and ChairsApproved

Approved on 24 November 2011

Council decision: GrantedPlanning committee

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

Proposal

8 Tables and 16 Chairs Monday to Thursday: 11:00 until 23:00 Friday to Saturday: 11:00 until 23:30 Sunday: 12:00 Midday until 22:30pm 5 Tables 10 Chairs 5 Umbrellas in Museum Street 3 Tables 6 Chairs 3 Umbrellas to be placed in Great Russell Street Renewal Application

Received
21 July 2011
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Bloomsbury (Pre May 2022), Holborn & Covent Garden (Pre May 2022)
  1. Received21 Jul
  2. Validated5 Aug
  3. Consult.2 Sep
  4. Target12 Sep
  5. Decided24 Nov

Decided in 111 days

About this application

This is a planning application at The Museum Tavern 49 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3BA. Camden has handled 11,527 applications of this type. This one was decided in 126 days, 11 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 15 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 640 applications in total for the WC1B postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
WC1B 3BA
Application type
Tables and Chairs
Development type
Table & Chairs
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 August 2011
Consultation expiry
2 September 2011
Consultation start
5 August 2011
Consultation end
2 September 2011
Last date for comments
2 September 2011
Target decision date
12 September 2011
Committee meeting
9 November 2011
Permission expires
9 November 2012

Planning decision

Statutory period
38 days

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: Grade II: Museum TavernOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Camden

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