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74 Cromer Street London WC1H 8DR

2015/0372/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 6 March 2015

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of use from retail (Class A1) to flexi use within (Class D1) community use / (Class A1) on the ground floor and (Class B1) office use with ancillary storage at basement level.

Received
26 January 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Kings Cross
  1. Received26 Jan
  2. Validated4 Feb
  3. Consult.25 Feb
  4. Target1 Apr
  5. Decided6 Mar

Decided in 30 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 74 Cromer Street London WC1H 8DR. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 39 days, 10 days quicker than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 143 applications across Kings Cross. We hold 814 applications in total for the WC1H 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
WC1H 8DR
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
A1 Shop, B1 Business, D1 Non-Residential Institution
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 February 2015
Consultation expiry
25 February 2015
Consultation start
4 February 2015
Consultation end
25 February 2015
Last date for comments
5 March 2015
Target decision date
1 April 2015
Permission expires
6 March 2018

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
6 February 2015

Additional information

Documents
9

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
  • 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

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