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47 Marchmont Street London WC1N 1AP

2015/2757/PFull Planning PermissionRefused
Full

Refused on 8 February 2016

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of lower ground floor from office (Class B1) to restaurant (Class A3) and replacement and enlargement of rear lower ground and ground floor extension (including two new windows) and erection of front external staircase and door, following demolition of rear extension.

Received
15 May 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bloomsbury
  1. Received15 May
  2. Validated17 Jun
  3. Consult.3 Sep
  4. Target8 Jul
  5. Decided8 Feb

Decided in 236 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at 47 Marchmont Street London WC1N 1AP. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 269 days, 31 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 395 applications across Bloomsbury. We hold 1,071 applications in total for the WC1N 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
WC1N 1AP
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
A3 Restaurants and Cafes
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 June 2015
Consultation expiry
3 September 2015
Consultation start
17 June 2015
Consultation end
3 September 2015
Last date for comments
3 September 2015
Target decision date
8 July 2015

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Publicity

Site notice start
19 June 2015

Appeal

Appeal date
24 October 2016
Appeal result
Withdrawn 16-03-2017

Additional information

Documents
39

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Bloomsbury
  • Listed building: (West side) Nos.39-73 (Odd)On or next to this site
  • 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

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Source: Camden

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