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39-45 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8PR

2013/3231/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 6 November 2013

Council decision: Granted Subject to a Section 106 Legal AgreementPlanning committee

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

Proposal

Redevelopment to provide 16 residential units (12 x 2 bedroom, 3 x 1 bedroom and 1 x studio) and 545 sqm of ground floor and basement retail space (2 x Class A1 units), following partial demolition at Nos. 39 and 45 and full demolition at Nos. 41 and 43 Gray's Inn Road.

Received
24 May 2013
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Holborn & Covent Garden
  1. Received24 May
  2. Validated4 Jul
  3. Consult.8 Oct
  4. Target31 Oct
  5. Decided6 Nov

Decided in 125 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at 39-45 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8PR. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 166 days, 17 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 9 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 1,230 applications in total for the WC1X 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
WC1X 8PR
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
A1 Shop, C3 Dwelling House
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
16

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 July 2013
Consultation expiry
8 October 2013
Consultation start
4 July 2013
Consultation end
8 October 2013
Last date for comments
8 October 2013
Target decision date
31 October 2013
Committee meeting
7 November 2013
Permission expires
6 November 2016

Planning decision

Statutory period
119 days

Publicity

Site notice start
10 July 2013

Additional information

Documents
45

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
  • Brownfield land register: 20-21 King's Mews London WC1N 2JBRegister 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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Associated applications

  1. 2015
    3 Feb

    Details of condition 6 (sound insulation measures) of planning permission ref 2013/3231/P

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions2015/0543/P
  2. 2013
    24 May

    Redevelopment to provide 16 residential units (12 x 2 bedroom, 3 x 1 bedroom and 1 x studio) and 545 sqm of…

    This applicationConditionsFull2013/3231/P
  3. 2013
    24 May

    Partial demolition at Nos. 39 and 45 and full demolition at Nos. 41 and 43 Gray's Inn Road.

    ConditionsConservation Area ConsentFiled alongside2013/3452/C

Source: Camden

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