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Pakenham Arms 1 Pakenham Street London WC1X 0LA

2016/6931/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 4 October 2017

Council decision: GrantedPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from pub/drinking establishment (Use Class A4) to retail (Use Class A1) at basement and ground floor levels.

Received
16 December 2016
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Kings Cross (Pre May 2022)
  1. Received16 Dec
  2. Validated25 Jan
  3. Consult.17 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided4 Oct

Decided in 252 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Pakenham Arms 1 Pakenham Street London WC1X 0LA. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 292 days, 35 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 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 0LA
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
A1 Shop
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 January 2017
Consultation expiry
17 February 2017
Consultation start
27 January 2017
Consultation end
17 February 2017
Last date for comments
23 February 2017
Permission expires
1 May 2021

Publicity

Site notice start
31 January 2017

Additional information

Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Bloomsbury
  • Listed building: Grade II: 1, Pakenham StreetOn this site · +3 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2016
    16 Dec

    Change of use from pub/drinking establishment (Use Class A4) to office (Use Class B1a) at basement and ground…

    RefusedFull Planning PermissionFiled alongside2016/6930/P
  2. 2016
    16 Dec

    Change of use from pub/drinking establishment (Use Class A4) to retail (Use Class A1) at basement and ground…

    This applicationApprovedFull2016/6931/P

Source: Camden

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