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27 Montague Street London WC1B 5BH

2016/7062/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 15 January 2018

Council decision: Granted Subject to a Section 106 Legal AgreementPlanning committee

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Proposal

Change of use from hostel (sui generis) to 3x flats (Class C3)

Received
22 December 2016
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Bloomsbury (Pre May 2022)
  1. Received22 Dec
  2. Validated5 Jan
  3. Consult.27 Jan
  4. Target13 Dec
  5. Decided15 Jan

Decided in 375 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 27 Montague Street London WC1B 5BH. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 389 days, 49 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 11 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 641 applications in total for the WC1B 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
WC1B 5BH
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
C3 Dwelling House
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 January 2017
Consultation expiry
27 January 2017
Consultation start
6 January 2017
Consultation end
27 January 2017
Last date for comments
31 July 2017
Target decision date
13 December 2017
Committee meeting
10 August 2017
Permission expires
15 January 2021

Planning decision

Statutory period
342 days

Publicity

Site notice start
26 January 2017

Additional information

Documents
45

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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Associated applications

  1. 2016
    22 Dec

    Change of use from hostel (sui generis) to 3x flats (Class C3)

    This applicationConditionsFull2016/7062/P
  2. 2016
    22 Dec

    Change of use from hostel (sui generis) to 3x flats and associated internal alterations

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside2017/0045/L

Source: Camden

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