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23 Bloomsbury Square London WC1A 2PJ

2016/5597/LListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 1 February 2017

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Internal alterations including the installation new partitions and the formation of a new door opening, plus the installation of an air condenser unit in the rear basement lightwell

Received
13 October 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bloomsbury (Pre May 2022)
  1. Received13 Oct
  2. Validated10 Nov
  3. Consult.1 Dec
  4. Target10 Nov
  5. Decided1 Feb

Decided in 83 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application at 23 Bloomsbury Square London WC1A 2PJ. Camden has handled 1,652 applications of this type. This one was decided in 111 days, 9 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 12 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 179 applications in total for the WC1A postcode area.

97% of heritage 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
WC1A 2PJ
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Development type
D1 Non-Residential Institution
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 November 2016
Consultation expiry
1 December 2016
Consultation start
10 November 2016
Consultation end
1 December 2016
Last date for comments
8 December 2016
Target decision date
10 November 2016
Permission expires
1 February 2020

Publicity

Site notice start
16 November 2016

Additional information

Documents
6

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 (20)

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, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

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Source: Camden

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