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285 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8QF

2014/7442/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 27 March 2015

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Retention of externally illuminated fascia sign on front elevation.

Received
2 December 2014
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Kings Cross
  1. Received2 Dec
  2. Validated8 Dec
  3. Consult.29 Dec
  4. Target2 Feb
  5. Decided27 Mar

Decided in 109 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for signage at 285 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8QF. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 115 days, 9 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. 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 8QF
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
A1 Shop
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 December 2014
Consultation expiry
29 December 2014
Consultation start
8 December 2014
Consultation end
29 December 2014
Last date for comments
1 January 2015
Target decision date
2 February 2015
Permission expires
27 March 2018

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
10 December 2014

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
  • 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.

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2014
    2 Dec

    Retention of externally illuminated fascia sign on front elevation.

    This applicationApprovedFull2014/7442/P
  2. 2014
    2 Dec

    Retention of externally illuminated fascia sign on front elevation

    ApprovedAdvertisement consentFiled alongside2014/7482/A

Source: Camden

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