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North Wing/Slade Building University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT

2013/0783/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 22 April 2013

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Installation of lean-to glazed structure within lightwell of north wing to existing educational building (Class D1).

Received
7 February 2013
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bloomsbury
  1. Received7 Feb
  2. Validated4 Mar
  3. Consult.11 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided22 Apr

Decided in 49 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at North Wing/Slade Building University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 74 days, 4 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 395 applications across Bloomsbury. We hold 395 applications in total for the WC1E 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
WC1E 6BT
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
D1 Non-Residential Institution
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 March 2013
Consultation expiry
11 March 2013
Consultation start
18 February 2013
Consultation end
11 March 2013
Last date for comments
4 April 2013
Permission expires
22 April 2016

Publicity

Site notice start
6 March 2013

Additional information

Documents
12

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) University College (University of London) & attached railings to N & S wingsOn 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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.

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

Associated applications

  1. 2013
    7 Feb

    Installation of lean-to glazed structure within lightwell of north wing to existing educational building…

    This applicationApprovedFull2013/0783/P
  2. 2013
    7 Feb

    Installation of lean-to glazed structure within lightwell of north wing to existing educational building…

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside2013/0784/L

Source: Camden

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