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8-10 Southampton Row and 1 Fisher Street London WC1B 4AE

2019/2560/LListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 9 July 2020

Council decision: GrantedPlanning committee

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

Proposal

Change of use of 8-10 Southampton Row from temporary Crossrail offices (B1) to hotel with ancillary bar and restaurant (C1), together with erection of an 8 storey building at 1 Fisher Street, containing 9 self-contained residential units (C3) and hotel floorspace connected to 8-10 Southampton Row (85 hotel rooms in total across the site), following demolition of part of rear facade and other internal and external alterations to 8-10 Southampton Row. Installation of associated plant, refuse and cycle storage areas.

Received
15 May 2019
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Holborn & Covent Garden (Pre May 2022)
  1. Received15 May
  2. Validated16 May
  3. Consult.6 Jun
  4. Target12 Nov
  5. Decided9 Jul

Decided in 420 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application for demolition at 8-10 Southampton Row and 1 Fisher Street London WC1B 4AE. Camden has handled 1,652 applications of this type. This one was decided in 421 days, 53 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in 11 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 641 applications in total for the WC1B postcode area.

97% of heritage 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
WC1B 4AE
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Development type
C1 Hotel, C3 Dwelling House
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 May 2019
Consultation expiry
6 June 2019
Consultation start
16 May 2019
Consultation end
6 June 2019
Last date for comments
9 September 2019
Target decision date
12 November 2019
Committee meeting
19 September 2019
Permission expires
9 July 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
180 days

Publicity

Site notice start
24 May 2019

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Listed building: Grade II: Carlisle HouseOn or next to this site
  • Article 4 direction: Basements+1 more
  • Brownfield land register: 8-10 Southampton Row and 1 Fisher Street, London, WC1B 4AERegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, conservation 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 and heritage coasts.

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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© 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
    15 May

    Change of use of 8-10 Southampton Row from temporary Crossrail offices (B1) to hotel with ancillary bar and…

    ConditionsFull Planning PermissionFiled alongside2019/2536/P
  2. 2019
    15 May

    Change of use of 8-10 Southampton Row from temporary Crossrail offices (B1) to hotel with ancillary bar and…

    This applicationApprovedHeritage2019/2560/L

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