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UCL Wilkins Building and Bernard Katz Building Gower Street London WC1E 6BT

2019/0067/LListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 18 September 2019

Council decision: GrantedPlanning committee

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

Proposal

Internal alterations to create a new internal opening, doorway and access route between Wilkins building south cloister, Bernard Katz building and Japanese garden.

Received
20 December 2018
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Bloomsbury (Pre May 2022)
  1. Received20 Dec
  2. Validated4 Jan
  3. Consult.25 Jan
  4. Target1 Mar
  5. Decided18 Sep

Decided in 257 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application at UCL Wilkins Building and Bernard Katz Building Gower Street London WC1E 6BT. Camden has handled 1,652 applications of this type. This one was decided in 272 days, 32 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application 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
Listed Building Consent
Development type
D1 Non-Residential Institution
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 January 2019
Consultation expiry
25 January 2019
Consultation start
4 January 2019
Consultation end
25 January 2019
Last date for comments
3 February 2019
Target decision date
1 March 2019
Permission expires
18 September 2022

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
7 January 2019

Additional information

Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2018
    20 Dec

    Replacement of windows and doors to north-western elevation of Bernard Katz building, adjacent to Japanese…

    ApprovedFull Planning PermissionFiled alongside2018/6322/P
  2. 2018
    20 Dec

    Internal alterations to create a new internal opening, doorway and access route between Wilkins building…

    This applicationApprovedHeritage2019/0067/L

Source: Camden

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