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UCL Main Building Gower Street London WC1E 6BT

2015/0056/LListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 13 February 2015

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Refurbishment of existing windows and alterations to incorporate mechanical ventilation reconfiguraton.

Received
16 December 2014
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bloomsbury
  1. Received16 Dec
  2. Validated8 Jan
  3. Consult.29 Jan
  4. Target5 Mar
  5. Decided13 Feb

Decided in 36 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application for window replacement at UCL Main Building Gower Street London WC1E 6BT. Camden has handled 1,652 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 10 days longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There have been 6 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 395 applications across Bloomsbury. We hold 395 applications in total for the WC1E postcode area.

97% of heritage 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
WC1E 6BT
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Development type
D1 Non-Residential Institution
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 January 2015
Consultation expiry
29 January 2015
Consultation start
8 January 2015
Consultation end
29 January 2015
Last date for comments
5 February 2015
Target decision date
5 March 2015
Permission expires
13 February 2018

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
14 January 2015

Additional information

Documents
2

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.

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
    16 Dec

    Refurbishment of existing windows and alterations to incorporate mechanical ventilation reconfiguraton.

    ApprovedFull Planning PermissionFiled alongside2014/7737/P
  2. 2014
    16 Dec

    Refurbishment of existing windows and alterations to incorporate mechanical ventilation reconfiguraton.

    This applicationApprovedHeritage2015/0056/L

Planning history at this site

5 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    7 May

    MAIN QUAD AREA: 1 x Lime (T1) - Raise crown to 5m from ground level and remove all epicormic growth. 1 x Lime…

    ApprovedApplication2026/1821/T
  2. 2025
    20 Jan

    MAIN FRONT AREA: 1 x Tree of Heaven (T1) - Remove damaged/half snapped out branches as tree is situated over…

    ApprovedTrees2025/0231/T
  3. 2017
    22 Feb

    Details of Local District Heating Network required by condition 4 of planning permission granted on…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions2017/1019/P
  4. 2017
    17 Feb

    The discharge of Condition 2 (Sample panels of facing materials, paving and brickwork) and Condition 4…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions2017/0967/L
  5. 2015
    5 May

    Discharge of condition 4 (Internal Method Statement) granted under reference 2014/0383/L

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions2015/2519/L

Source: Camden

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