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294 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8DX

2013/3630/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 18 September 2013

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

Installation of new shopfront to shop (Class A1)

Received
11 June 2013
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Kings Cross
  1. Received11 Jun
  2. Validated5 Aug
  3. Consult.26 Aug
  4. Target
  5. Decided18 Sep

Decided in 44 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 294 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8DX. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 99 days, 7 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 13 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 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 8DX
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
A1 Shop, B1a Business - Office
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 August 2013
Consultation expiry
26 August 2013
Consultation start
5 August 2013
Consultation end
26 August 2013
Last date for comments
5 September 2013
Permission expires
18 September 2016

Publicity

Site notice start
7 August 2013

Additional information

Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Bloomsbury
  • Listed building: (North side) Nos.54-72 (Even) and attached railingsOn or next to this site
  • 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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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Source: Camden

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