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UCL South Wing Building Gower Street London WC1E 6BT

2019/0271/LListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 11 April 2019

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Refurbishment of rooms on Level 2 of South Wing and the refurbishment of an office and adjacent store on Level 1. Work includes alteration to an internal wall, and the removal of 2 no. 20th century suspended ceilings to reveal high level windows. New A/C to the teaching laboratories and mezzanine offices. External addition of a condenser unit, with existing plant to the south-west rear corner of the building, and associated services.

Received
21 December 2018
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bloomsbury (Pre May 2022)
  1. Received21 Dec
  2. Validated17 Jan
  3. Consult.27 Mar
  4. Target14 Mar
  5. Decided11 Apr

Decided in 84 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application for window replacement at UCL South Wing Building Gower Street London WC1E 6BT. Camden has handled 1,652 applications of this type. This one was decided in 111 days, 9 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications 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
17 January 2019
Consultation expiry
27 March 2019
Consultation start
17 January 2019
Consultation end
27 March 2019
Last date for comments
27 March 2019
Target decision date
14 March 2019
Permission expires
11 April 2022

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
25 January 2019

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Bloomsbury
  • Listed building: Grade II: 23, Gower PlaceOn this site · +11 more
  • 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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Source: Camden

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