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50 Earlham Street London WC2H 9LJ

2023/2305/LListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 29 August 2023

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Internal alterations including installation of access staircase, creation of bar areas and glazed beer cooling area, and works to walls and flooring. External works including removal of paint and erection of signage.

Received
30 March 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Holborn and Covent Garden
  1. Received30 Mar
  2. Validated30 Jun
  3. Consult.1 Aug
  4. Target14 Jul
  5. Decided29 Aug

Decided in 60 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application for signage at 50 Earlham Street London WC2H 9LJ. Camden has handled 1,652 applications of this type. This one was decided in 152 days, 15 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.

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
WC2H 9LJ
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Development type
Commercial, business & service uses
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

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

Planning decision

Statutory period
14 days

Publicity

Site notice start
5 July 2023

Additional information

Documents
13

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: Seven Dials WarehouseOn or next to this site
  • 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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