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53 Gower Street London WC1E 6HJ

2019/0848/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 20 August 2019

Council decision: Granted Subject to a Section 106 Legal AgreementDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

External alterations to rear including installation of doors at lower ground floor and conversion of existing residential units to provide 1 x 1 bed and 2 x 3 bed flats.

Received
12 February 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bloomsbury (Pre May 2022)
  1. Received12 Feb
  2. Validated19 Feb
  3. Consult.13 Jun
  4. Target26 Mar
  5. Decided20 Aug

Decided in 182 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 53 Gower Street London WC1E 6HJ. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 189 days, 20 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.

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
WC1E 6HJ
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
C3 Dwelling House
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 February 2019
Consultation expiry
13 June 2019
Consultation start
19 February 2019
Consultation end
13 June 2019
Last date for comments
13 June 2019
Target decision date
26 March 2019
Permission expires
20 August 2022

Planning decision

Statutory period
35 days

Publicity

Site notice start
22 February 2019

Additional information

Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Bloomsbury
  • Listed building: (West side) Nos.51-85 (Odd) and attached railingsOn or next to this site
  • Article 4 direction: Basements
  • 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2019
    12 Feb

    External alterations to rear including installation of doors at lower ground floor and conversion of existing…

    This applicationConditionsFull2019/0848/P
  2. 2019
    12 Feb

    Internal alterations throughout and external alterations to rear including installation of doors at lower…

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside2019/0989/L

Source: Camden

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