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277A Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8QF

2015/2285/PVariation or Removal of Condition(s)Approved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 31 July 2015

Council decision: Granted Subject to a Section 106 Legal AgreementDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Variation of Condition 2 of planning permission 2014/4267/P, dated 10 October 2014 (demolition of existing building and comprehensive mixed-use redevelopment of the site to provide 60 residential units (including 14 affordable flats) comprising: 56 units arranged around the new open space (seven x 2 storey houses plus lower-ground floor, 49 x flats in 3, 7 and 8 storey blocks plus lower-ground floor) and 4 flats in a 4 storey plus lower-ground building on St Chads Street, with ancillary basement gym; with offices at ground and lower-ground floor, cafe/gallery (Class A1/Class A3) at ground floor, together with cycle parking, access, landscaping, boundary treatments and associated works) to allow minor material amendment to increase building height.

Received
17 April 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Kings Cross
  1. Received17 Apr
  2. Validated13 May
  3. Consult.3 Jun
  4. Target3 Jun
  5. Decided31 Jul

Decided in 79 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at 277A Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8QF. Camden has handled 713 applications of this type. This one was decided in 105 days, 8 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the King's Cross and St Pancras conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There have been 4 other applications 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.

98% of conditions 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
Variation or Removal of Condition(s)
Development type
C3 Dwelling House
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
60

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 May 2015
Consultation expiry
3 June 2015
Consultation start
13 May 2015
Consultation end
3 June 2015
Last date for comments
11 June 2015
Target decision date
3 June 2015
Permission expires
31 July 2018

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Publicity

Site notice start
15 May 2015

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: Kings Cross St Pancras
  • 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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