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341 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8PX

2019/2538/PFull Planning PermissionRefused
Full

Refused on 7 August 2019

Council decision: Refused and Warning of Enforcement Action to be TakenDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

Change of use from residential use (Class C3) to 9 x short term let units (retrospective application)

Received
15 May 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Kings Cross (Pre May 2022)
  1. Received15 May
  2. Validated6 Jun
  3. Consult.27 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided7 Aug

Decided in 62 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 341 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8PX. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 84 days, 5 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the King's Cross and St Pancras conservation area, with 7 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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 8PX
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
C1 Hotel
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 June 2019
Consultation expiry
27 June 2019
Consultation start
6 June 2019
Consultation end
27 June 2019
Last date for comments
7 July 2019

Publicity

Site notice start
12 June 2019

Appeal

Appeal date
11 February 2020
Appeal result
Dismissed 02-07-2020

Additional information

Documents
29

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Kings Cross St Pancras
  • 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.

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Source: Camden

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