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Various locations around Covent Garden/Seven Dials (See location plan)

2023/1997/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 28 July 2023

Council decision: GrantedPlanning committee

Proposal

Temporary display of 2 gorilla sculptures measuring 1.2m length x 1.76m height (including plinth height) x 1.2m width for the period of 14 July 2023 to 14 October 2023 inclusive (part retrospective).

Received
17 May 2023
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Holborn and Covent Garden
  1. Received17 May
  2. Validated8 Jun
  3. Consult.30 Jun
  4. Target29 Jun
  5. Decided28 Jul

Decided in 50 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Various locations around Covent Garden/Seven Dials (See location plan). Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 72 days, 3 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in 15 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 338 applications across Holborn and Covent Garden.

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

Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
All Others eg. adverts, aods, telecoms etc.
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 June 2023
Consultation expiry
30 June 2023
Consultation start
9 June 2023
Consultation end
30 June 2023
Last date for comments
14 July 2023
Target decision date
29 June 2023
Permission expires
28 July 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Publicity

Site notice start
20 June 2023

Additional information

Documents
18

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Article 4 direction: Basements
  • Brownfield land register: 167-177 Shaftesbury Avenue London WC2H 8JBRegister 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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation 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 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.

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

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