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West side of Junction of Bedford Place & Bloomsbury Square London WC1B 5JT

2014/7334/TNotification of Intended Works to Tree(s) in a Conservation AreaApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 28 January 2015

Council decision: No Objection to Works to Tree(s) in CADelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

1 x Plane - Reduce crown to previous points 1 x Mountain Ash - Reduce by approx 4m and crown lift to 3-4m

Received
26 November 2014
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bloomsbury
  1. Received26 Nov
  2. Validated2 Dec
  3. Consult.26 Nov
  4. Target9 Dec
  5. Decided28 Jan

Decided in 57 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at West side of Junction of Bedford Place & Bloomsbury Square London WC1B 5JT. Camden has handled 669 applications of this type. This one was decided in 63 days, 2 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 13 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 395 applications across Bloomsbury. We hold 640 applications in total for the WC1B postcode area.

98% of trees 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
WC1B 5JT
Application type
Notification of Intended Works to Tree(s) in a Conservation Area
Development type
Tree
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 December 2014
Last date for comments
26 November 2014
Target decision date
9 December 2014
Permission expires
28 January 2018

Planning decision

Statutory period
7 days

Additional information

Documents
3

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: (West side) Nos.21-40 (Consecutive) and attached railingsOn or next to this site
  • Article 4 direction: Basements
  • 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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

Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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