39-45Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8PR
Approved on 7 May 2015
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Display of 2 x externally illuminated fascia and 1 x externally illuminated projecting signs.
- Received
- 17 April 2015
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Camden
- Ward
- Holborn & Covent Garden
- ReceivedReceived17 Apr
- ValidatedValidated21 Apr
- Consult.Consultation27 Apr
- TargetTarget Date16 Jun
- DecidedDecided7 May
Decided in 16 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an advertising consent application at 39-45Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8PR. Camden has handled 499 applications of this type. This one was decided in 20 days, 4 weeks quicker than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 9 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,230 applications in total for the WC1X postcode area.
81% of advertising 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 8PR
- Application type
- Advertisement Consent
- Development type
- All Others eg. adverts, aods, telecoms etc.
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 21 April 2015
- Last date for comments
- 27 April 2015
- Target decision date
- 16 June 2015
- Permission expires
- 7 May 2018
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 4
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Bloomsbury
- Article 4 direction: Basements+1 more
- Brownfield land register: 20-21 King's Mews London WC1N 2JBRegister 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.
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Planning history at this site
4 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 201529 Apr
Creation of rear balconies at first floor level.
ApprovedFull Planning Permission2015/2442/P - 20153 Feb
Details of condition 6 (sound insulation measures) of planning permission ref 2013/3231/P
ApprovedDischarge of conditions2015/0543/P - 201324 May
Redevelopment to provide 16 residential units (12 x 2 bedroom, 3 x 1 bedroom and 1 x studio) and 545 sqm of…
ConditionsFull Planning Permission2013/3231/P - 201324 May
Partial demolition at Nos. 39 and 45 and full demolition at Nos. 41 and 43 Gray's Inn Road.
ConditionsConservation Area Consent2013/3452/C
Source: Camden
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