North Cloister of Wilkins Building & Lower Refectory UCL Gower Street LONDON WC1E 6BT
Approved on 31 May 2017
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Details required by condition 8 (detailed drawings) of permission 2014/0373/L for: Erection of amenity terrace at ground floor, 'fourth facade' to northeast elevation and new access routes to altered refectory AND condition 3 (detailed drawings) of permission 2014/0383/L for: Erection of single storey extension and refurbishment of lower ground floor refectory
- Received
- 21 March 2017
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Camden
- Ward
- Bloomsbury (Pre May 2022)
- ReceivedReceived21 Mar
- ValidatedValidated20 Apr
- Consult.Consultation18 May
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided31 May
Decided in 41 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a heritage application for an extension at North Cloister of Wilkins Building & Lower Refectory UCL Gower Street LONDON WC1E 6BT. Camden has handled 1,652 applications of this type. This one was decided in 71 days, 3 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 395 applications in total for the WC1E 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
- WC1E 6BT
- Application type
- Approval of Details (Listed Building)
- Development type
- D1 Non-Residential Institution
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 20 April 2017
- Consultation start
- 26 April 2017
- Last date for comments
- 18 May 2017
- Permission expires
- 31 May 2020
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 26 April 2017
Additional information
- Documents
- 71
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Bloomsbury
- 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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