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37 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8PQ

2019/2097/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 22 January 2020

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

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

Proposal

Change of use from retail at part basement and part ground floor levels and office use at part basement, part ground and first, second and third floors to retail use (Class A1) at basement and ground floor levels, and residential use (Class C3) on levels 1, 2 ,3 and 4 (creation of 3x 2-bed self-contained flats and 1x 1-bed self-contained flat); alterations to shopfront; alterations to fenestration on front elevation; increase in height of front wall and erection of mansard roof extension above; demolition of rear elevation and erection of rear extension to ground, 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor levels

Received
16 April 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Holborn & Covent Garden (Pre May 2022)
  1. Received16 Apr
  2. Validated14 May
  3. Consult.13 Jun
  4. Target28 May
  5. Decided22 Jan

Decided in 253 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at 37 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8PQ. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 281 days, 33 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 7 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,230 applications in total for the WC1X 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
WC1X 8PQ
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
A1 Shop, A2 Financial and Professional, A3 Restaurants and Cafes, C3 Dwelling House
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 May 2019
Consultation expiry
13 June 2019
Consultation start
14 May 2019
Consultation end
13 June 2019
Last date for comments
16 June 2019
Target decision date
28 May 2019
Permission expires
22 January 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
14 days

Publicity

Site notice start
17 May 2019

Additional information

Documents
48

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
  • Listed building: Grade II: Yorkshire Grey Public HouseOn or next to this site
  • 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 (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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© 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. 2023
    1 Aug

    Variation of condition 2 (approved plans) of planning permission 2019/2097/P

    PendingVariation of conditions (s73)2023/3139/P
  2. 2019
    16 Apr

    Change of use from retail at part basement and part ground floor levels and office use at part basement, part…

    This applicationConditionsFull2019/2097/P

Source: Camden

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