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24-25 Bloomsbury Square London WC1A 2PL

2013/3881/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 20 December 2013

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

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

Proposal

Change of use from office use (Class B1) to residential use (Class C3) to provide seven self-contained flats (3 x one-bed, 1 x two-bed and 3 x three-bed) at lower ground to third floor levels of No.24 and part lower ground and ground to third floor levels of No.25, including demolition of rear ground floor extension at No.24. [THIS APPLICATION IS ASSOCIATED WITH A CONCURRENT APPLICATION AT 1 BEDFORD AVENUE REF: 2013/3880/P].

Received
21 June 2013
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Bloomsbury
  1. Received21 Jun
  2. Validated1 Jul
  3. Consult.16 Jul
  4. Target16 Jul
  5. Decided20 Dec

Decided in 172 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at 24-25 Bloomsbury Square London WC1A 2PL. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 182 days, 19 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 11 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 395 applications across Bloomsbury. We hold 179 applications in total for the WC1A 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
WC1A 2PL
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
B1 Business, C3 Dwelling House
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 July 2013
Consultation expiry
16 July 2014
Consultation start
3 July 2013
Consultation end
16 July 2014
Last date for comments
16 July 2014
Target decision date
16 July 2014
Committee meeting
26 September 2013
Permission expires
20 December 2016

Planning decision

Statutory period
380 days

Publicity

Site notice start
3 July 2013

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

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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: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Camden

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