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4, 5 & 6 Bedford Square London WC1B 3RA

2011/3803/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 15 December 2011

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Installation of 4 air conditioning units with associated pipe work, walkway and access ladders at roof level of No. 6 Bedford Square.

Received
27 July 2011
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bloomsbury
  1. Received27 Jul
  2. Validated11 Nov
  3. Consult.7 Dec
  4. Target
  5. Decided15 Dec

Decided in 34 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 4, 5 & 6 Bedford Square London WC1B 3RA. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 141 days, 13 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 394 applications across Bloomsbury. We hold 640 applications in total for the WC1B 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
WC1B 3RA
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
D1 Non-Residential Institution
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 November 2011
Consultation expiry
7 December 2011
Consultation start
16 November 2011
Consultation end
7 December 2011
Last date for comments
15 December 2011
Permission expires
15 December 2014

Publicity

Site notice start
18 November 2011

Additional information

Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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.

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

© 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2011
    27 Jul

    Installation of 4 air conditioning units with associated pipe work, walkway and access ladders at roof level…

    This applicationApprovedFull2011/3803/P
  2. 2011
    27 Jul

    Installation of 4 air conditioning units with associated pipe work, walkway and access ladders at roof level…

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside2011/3878/L

Source: Camden

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