Brownlow House 50-51 High Holborn London WC1V 6EP
Approved on 8 March 2017
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Remodelling of the Brownlow House office entrance and the installation of 4 x air conditioning units at rooftop level.
- Received
- 21 December 2016
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Camden
- Ward
- Holborn & Covent Garden (Pre May 2022)
- ReceivedReceived21 Dec
- ValidatedValidated19 Jan
- Consult.Consultation14 Feb
- TargetTarget Date9 Feb
- DecidedDecided8 Mar
Decided in 48 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Brownlow House 50-51 High Holborn London WC1V 6EP. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 77 days, 4 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 269 applications in total for the WC1V 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
- WC1V 6EP
- Application type
- Full Planning Permission
- Development type
- B1a Business - Office
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 19 January 2017
- Consultation expiry
- 14 February 2017
- Consultation start
- 19 January 2017
- Consultation end
- 14 February 2017
- Last date for comments
- 21 February 2017
- Target decision date
- 9 February 2017
- Permission expires
- 8 March 2020
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 21 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 31 January 2017
Additional information
- Documents
- 22
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Bloomsbury
- Article 4 direction: Basements+1 more
- Brownfield land register: Land Bounded by 50-57 High Holborn, (including Brownlow House High Holborn House & Caroli…Register site at or near this address · +1 more
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.
Also checked, none recorded (20)
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 and heritage coasts.
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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Source: Camden
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