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Chester Hotel 31 Argyle Square London WC1H 8AP

2013/3358/LApproval of Details (Listed Building)Approved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 15 November 2013

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Submission of details as required by conditions 2(a) (drawings of brass name plate), 2(b) (drawings of doors) and 3 (a method statement) of listed building consent dated 30/04/2012 (ref 2012/0922/L for alterations to rear extension including first floor rear extension, replacement of doors and windows and internal alterations in association hotel refurbishment).

Received
28 May 2013
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Kings Cross
  1. Received28 May
  2. Validated31 Jul
  3. Consult.29 Aug
  4. Target
  5. Decided15 Nov

Decided in 107 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application for a rear extension at Chester Hotel 31 Argyle Square London WC1H 8AP. Camden has handled 1,652 applications of this type. This one was decided in 171 days, 17 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. We hold 814 applications in total for the WC1H postcode area.

97% of heritage 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
WC1H 8AP
Application type
Approval of Details (Listed Building)
Development type
All Others eg. adverts, aods, telecoms etc.
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
31 July 2013
Consultation start
2 August 2013
Last date for comments
29 August 2013
Permission expires
15 November 2016

Publicity

Site notice start
2 August 2013

Additional information

Documents
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2013
    28 May

    Submission of details as required by conditions 2(a) (drawings of brass name plate), 2(b) (drawings of doors)…

    This applicationApprovedDischarge of conditions2013/3358/L
  2. 2013
    28 May

    Submission of details as required by condition 4 (green roof details) of planning permission dated 30/04/2013…

    WithdrawnDischarge of conditionsFiled alongside2013/3359/INVALID

Source: Camden

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