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The Museum Tavern 49 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3BA

2013/4005/TCTables and ChairsApproved

Approved on 12 August 2013

Council decision: GrantedPlanning committee

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

Proposal

8 Tables and 16 Chairs (3 tables, 6 Chairs in Great Russell Street: 5 tables, 10 chairs in Museum Street) Monday to Thursday: 09:00 to 23:00 Previously (11:00 to 23:00) Friday to Saturday: 9:00 to 23:30 Previously (11:00 to 23:30) Sunday: 12:00 to 22:30pm Start Times Variation Application

Received
25 June 2013
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Bloomsbury, Holborn & Covent Garden
  1. Received25 Jun
  2. Validated26 Jun
  3. Consult.24 Jul
  4. Target7 Aug
  5. Decided12 Aug

Decided in 47 days

About this application

This is a planning application at The Museum Tavern 49 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3BA. Camden has handled 11,545 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 15 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 641 applications in total for the WC1B postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
WC1B 3BA
Application type
Tables and Chairs
Development type
Table & Chairs
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 June 2013
Consultation expiry
24 July 2013
Consultation start
26 June 2013
Consultation end
24 July 2013
Last date for comments
24 July 2013
Target decision date
7 August 2013
Committee meeting
6 August 2013
Permission expires
10 November 2013

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

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
  • Listed building: Grade II: Museum TavernOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • 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 (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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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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.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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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