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34 High Holborn London WC1V 6AE

2013/3709/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 11 November 2013

Council decision: GrantedPlanning committee

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Proposal

Change of use of the existing ground floor and part of the basement floor level from office space (class B1) and retail unit (class A1) to restaurant (class A3). Extension of existing extract duct to side elevation to terminate at roof level.

Received
13 June 2013
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Holborn & Covent Garden
  1. Received13 Jun
  2. Validated16 Jul
  3. Consult.6 Aug
  4. Target29 Oct
  5. Decided11 Nov

Decided in 118 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 34 High Holborn London WC1V 6AE. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 151 days, 15 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. We hold 270 applications in total for the WC1V 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
WC1V 6AE
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
A3 Restaurants and Cafes
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 July 2013
Consultation expiry
6 August 2013
Consultation start
16 July 2013
Consultation end
6 August 2013
Last date for comments
15 August 2013
Target decision date
29 October 2013
Committee meeting
7 November 2013
Permission expires
11 November 2016

Planning decision

Statutory period
105 days

Publicity

Site notice start
19 July 2013

Additional information

Documents
45

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

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Source: Camden

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