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7 Great Queen Street London WC2B 5DG

2023/2141/AAdvertisement ConsentApproved

Approved on 13 March 2024

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

Display of externally illuminated (trough-lit) fascia sign and internally illuminated projecting sign, including vinyl signage applied to glazing on ground floor shopfront.

Received
25 May 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Holborn and Covent Garden
  1. Received25 May
  2. Validated6 Jun
  3. Consult.20 Jun
  4. Target1 Aug
  5. Decided13 Mar

Decided in 281 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an advertising consent application at 7 Great Queen Street London WC2B 5DG. Camden has handled 499 applications of this type. This one was decided in 293 days, 35 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Kingsway conservation area, with 7 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 199 applications in total for the WC2B postcode area.

81% of advertising 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
WC2B 5DG
Application type
Advertisement Consent
Development type
All Others eg. adverts, aods, telecoms etc.
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 June 2023
Consultation start
27 May 2023
Last date for comments
20 June 2023
Target decision date
1 August 2023
Permission expires
13 March 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Kingsway+1 more
  • Listed building: Grade II: 5, Great Queen StreetOn or next to this site · +1 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

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Source: Camden

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