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Floors 1-3 37 Museum Street London WC1A 1LQ

2016/6522/LListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 16 February 2017

Council decision: Granted and Warning of Enforcement ActionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Erection of partition to subdivide front room at 3rd floor level.

Received
28 November 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Holborn & Covent Garden (Pre May 2022)
  1. Received28 Nov
  2. Validated6 Feb
  3. Consult.27 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided16 Feb

Decided in 10 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Floors 1-3 37 Museum Street London WC1A 1LQ. Camden has handled 1,652 applications of this type. This one was decided in 80 days, 4 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 15 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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 1LQ
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Development type
B1a Business - Office
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 February 2017
Consultation expiry
27 February 2017
Consultation start
6 February 2017
Consultation end
27 February 2017
Last date for comments
27 February 2017
Permission expires
16 February 2020

Additional information

Documents
9

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: Bloomsbury
  • Listed building: Grade II: 37, 38 and 39, Museum StreetOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • Article 4 direction: Basements
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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.

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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