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Headland House 308 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8DP

2015/2939/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 20 July 2015

Council decision: GrantedPlanning committee

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Proposal

Change of use of ground floor from office (class B1) to cafe/restaurant (class A3), a ground floor rear extension and modernisation of the upper floors and frontages of the building.

Received
22 May 2015
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Kings Cross
  1. Received22 May
  2. Validated27 May
  3. Consult.15 Jul
  4. Target20 Jul
  5. Decided20 Jul

Decided in 54 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a rear extension at Headland House 308 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8DP. Camden has handled 2,296 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 10 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application 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.

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
WC1X 8DP
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
A3 Restaurants and Cafes, B1a Business - Office
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 May 2015
Consultation expiry
15 July 2015
Consultation start
27 May 2015
Consultation end
15 July 2015
Last date for comments
15 July 2015
Target decision date
20 July 2015
Committee meeting
16 July 2015
Permission expires
20 July 2018

Planning decision

Statutory period
54 days

Publicity

Site notice start
29 May 2015

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (19)

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 and heritage coasts.

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Source: Camden

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