Various locations around Covent Garden/Seven Dials (See location plan)
Approved on 28 July 2023
Council decision: GrantedPlanning committee
Proposal
Temporary display of 4 non-illuminated gorilla sculptures advertising the Tusk Trust, each 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
- Council
- London Borough of Camden
- Ward
- Holborn and Covent Garden
- ReceivedReceived17 May
- ValidatedValidated9 Jun
- Consult.Consultation30 Jun
- TargetTarget Date4 Aug
- DecidedDecided28 Jul
Decided in 49 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an advertising consent application at Various locations around Covent Garden/Seven Dials (See location plan). Camden has handled 499 applications of this type. This one was decided in 72 days, 3 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Seven Dials (Covent Garden) conservation area, with 18 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.
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
- Application type
- Advertisement Consent
- Development type
- All Others eg. adverts, aods, telecoms etc.
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 9 June 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 30 June 2023
- Consultation start
- 9 June 2023
- Consultation end
- 30 June 2023
- Last date for comments
- 30 June 2023
- Target decision date
- 4 August 2023
- Permission expires
- 28 July 2026
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 6
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Seven Dials (Covent Garden)
- Listed building: Grade II: 34, SHELTON STREET WC2 (See details for further address information)On 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.
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