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11 Emerald Street London WC1N 3QL

2013/1369/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 23 May 2013

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Installation of 3 x air handling units located at main roof level in connection with existing office use (Class B1).

Received
9 March 2013
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Holborn & Covent Garden
  1. Received9 Mar
  2. Validated5 Apr
  3. Consult.12 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided23 May

Decided in 48 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 11 Emerald Street London WC1N 3QL. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 75 days, 4 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 19 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,071 applications in total for the WC1N 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
WC1N 3QL
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
B1a Business - Office
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 April 2013
Consultation expiry
12 June 2013
Consultation start
5 April 2013
Consultation end
12 June 2013
Last date for comments
12 June 2013
Permission expires
23 May 2016

Publicity

Site notice start
10 April 2013

Additional information

Documents
13

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
  • 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.

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.

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

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2025
    22 Jan

    Installation of 4 x outdoor air handling units on the roof

    ApprovedFull planning permission2025/0276/P

Source: Camden

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