Unit 1 Chichester Rents London WC2A 1EG
Approved on 8 May 2023
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Use of basement and ground floors as offices (Class E).
- Received
- 5 January 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Camden
- Ward
- Holborn and Covent Garden
- ReceivedReceived5 Jan
- ValidatedValidated23 Feb
- Consult.Consultation9 Mar
- TargetTarget Date20 Apr
- DecidedDecided8 May
Decided in 74 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an outline application at Unit 1 Chichester Rents London WC2A 1EG. Camden has handled 178 applications of this type. This one was decided in 123 days, 11 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 19 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 338 applications across Holborn and Covent Garden. We hold 131 applications in total for the WC2A postcode area.
97% of outline 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
- WC2A 1EG
- Application type
- Certificate of Lawfulness (Proposed)
- Development type
- Commercial, business & service uses
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 23 February 2023
- Consultation start
- 13 February 2023
- Last date for comments
- 9 March 2023
- Target decision date
- 20 April 2023
- Permission expires
- 8 May 2026
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 14
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- 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 (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.
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Source: Camden
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