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Land adjacent to Museum Street London WC1A 1BA

2019/1840/AAdvertisement ConsentApproved

Approved on 19 June 2019

Council decision: GrantedPlanning committee

Proposal

Installation of wayfinding signage on the edge of planters.

Received
18 March 2019
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Holborn & Covent Garden (Pre May 2022)
  1. Received18 Mar
  2. Validated5 Apr
  3. Consult.18 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided19 Jun

Decided in 75 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an advertising consent application at Land adjacent to Museum Street London WC1A 1BA. Camden has handled 499 applications of this type. This one was decided in 93 days, 6 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 14 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 179 applications in total for the WC1A postcode area.

81% of advertising 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
WC1A 1BA
Application type
Advertisement Consent
Development type
Sui Generis
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 April 2019
Last date for comments
18 March 2019
Permission expires
19 June 2022

Additional information

Documents
12

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. 2019
    18 Mar

    Public realm works on Museum Street including installation of 3 x planters and double sided seating units and…

    ApprovedFull Planning PermissionFiled alongside2019/1446/P
  2. 2019
    18 Mar

    Installation of wayfinding signage on the edge of planters.

    This applicationApprovedAdvertisement consent2019/1840/A

Source: Camden

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

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