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The Lighthouse Block 283-297 Pentonville Road and 370-380 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X

2013/2776/AAdvertisement ConsentApproved

Approved on 10 September 2013

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Temporary display of hoarding and shroud with a 1:1 image of the proposed building on the western apex and advertisements at first to roof level on the Grays Inn Road elevation.

Received
9 May 2013
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Kings Cross
  1. Received9 May
  2. Validated22 Jul
  3. Consult.28 Aug
  4. Target
  5. Decided10 Sep

Decided in 50 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an advertising consent application at The Lighthouse Block 283-297 Pentonville Road and 370-380 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X. Camden has handled 499 applications of this type. This one was decided in 124 days, 11 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 143 applications across Kings Cross.

81% of advertising 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

Application type
Advertisement Consent
Development type
Sui Generis
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 July 2013
Consultation expiry
28 August 2013
Consultation start
22 July 2013
Consultation end
28 August 2013
Last date for comments
28 August 2013
Permission expires
10 September 2016

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
  • Article 4 direction: Basements
  • Brownfield land register: Battle Bridge House, Offices And Premises At Basement-6th Floors 300-306 Gray's Inn Road…Register site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

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 and heritage coasts.

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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