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Watch House Seven Dials 7 Upper Street Martins Lane WC2H 9DL

2023/1570/TCTables and ChairsApproved

Approved on 24 May 2023

Council decision: GrantedPlanning committee

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

Proposal

4Tables and 8 Chairs Upper St Martin Street Only Monday to Friday 08:00-18:00 Saturday 09:00 - 18:00 Sunday 10:00-18:00 New Appliction

Received
18 March 2023
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Holborn and Covent Garden
  1. Received18 Mar
  2. Validated18 Apr
  3. Consult.16 May
  4. Target30 May
  5. Decided24 May

Decided in 36 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Watch House Seven Dials 7 Upper Street Martins Lane WC2H 9DL. Camden has handled 11,545 applications of this type. This one was decided in 67 days, 3 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Seven Dials (Covent Garden) conservation area, with 20 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 478 applications in total for the WC2H postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
WC2H 9DL
Application type
Tables and Chairs
Development type
Table & Chairs
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 April 2023
Consultation expiry
16 May 2023
Consultation start
18 April 2023
Consultation end
16 May 2023
Last date for comments
16 May 2023
Target decision date
30 May 2023
Committee meeting
24 May 2023
Permission expires
24 May 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
3

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: Seven Dials (Covent Garden)
  • Listed building: Grade II: North WingOn or next to this site · +2 more
  • Article 4 direction: Basements
  • 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

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.

Source: Camden

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

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