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Templar House 81-87 High Holborn London WC1V 6NU

2018/5903/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 24 June 2019

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

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

Proposal

Refurbishment of the current office building including installation of new and replacement rooflights at ground floor level to enclose the existing voids following conversion of underground basement car park and removal of car park ramp to create additional employment floor space (B1 use), erection of a single storey extension at ground floor and 8th floor level, installation of metal railings to create a roof terrace at 8th floor level, installation of additional air conditioning units and new acoustic screen to existing plant enclosure at 7th floor level fronting onto Eagle Street, enlargement of the office entrance to High Holborn involving alterations to the existing retail accommodation layout and shop frontages and alterations to the ground floor openings on the rear elevation fronting onto Eagle Street.

Received
30 November 2018
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Holborn & Covent Garden (Pre May 2022)
  1. Received30 Nov
  2. Validated5 Feb
  3. Consult.29 Apr
  4. Target2 Apr
  5. Decided24 Jun

Decided in 139 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an extension at Templar House 81-87 High Holborn London WC1V 6NU. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 206 days, 22 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application 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 6NU
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
A1 Shop, B1 Business
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 February 2019
Consultation expiry
29 April 2019
Consultation start
11 January 2019
Consultation end
29 April 2019
Last date for comments
29 April 2019
Target decision date
2 April 2019
Permission expires
24 June 2022

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
8 February 2019

Additional information

Documents
72

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
  • Article 4 direction: Basements+1 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

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, 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

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© 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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