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11-15 Emerald Street London WC1N 3QL

2019/1298/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 1 May 2019

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Installation of 6x air con units at roof level

Received
8 March 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Holborn & Covent Garden (Pre May 2022)
  1. Received8 Mar
  2. Validated28 Mar
  3. Consult.18 Apr
  4. Target18 Apr
  5. Decided1 May

Decided in 34 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 11-15 Emerald Street London WC1N 3QL. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 5 days longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 19 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,071 applications in total for the WC1N 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
WC1N 3QL
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
B1 Business
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 March 2019
Consultation expiry
18 April 2019
Consultation start
28 March 2019
Consultation end
18 April 2019
Last date for comments
28 April 2019
Target decision date
18 April 2019
Permission expires
1 May 2022

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Publicity

Site notice start
3 April 2019

Additional information

Documents
15

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

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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    10 Nov

    Installation of outdoor air handling units on the roof.

    PendingFull Planning Permission2026/4962/P

Source: Camden

Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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