Templar House 81-87 High Holborn London WC1V 6NU
Approved on 6 September 2023
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Change of use from sui generis use (retail and cafe/restaurant) to sui generis use (cafe and bar)
- Received
- 23 June 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Camden
- Ward
- Holborn and Covent Garden
- ReceivedReceived23 Jun
- ValidatedValidated7 Jul
- Consult.Consultation28 Jul
- TargetTarget Date21 Jul
- DecidedDecided6 Sep
Decided in 61 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Templar House 81-87 High Holborn London WC1V 6NU. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 75 days, 4 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 338 applications across Holborn and Covent Garden. We hold 270 applications in total for the WC1V postcode area.
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
- Postcode
- WC1V 6NU
- Application type
- Full Planning Permission
- Development type
- Commercial, business & service uses, Sui Generis
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 7 July 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 28 July 2023
- Consultation start
- 7 July 2023
- Consultation end
- 28 July 2023
- Last date for comments
- 6 August 2023
- Target decision date
- 21 July 2023
- Permission expires
- 6 September 2026
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 14 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 11 July 2023
Additional information
- Documents
- 8
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Bloomsbury
- Article 4 direction: Basements+1 more
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.
Also checked, none recorded (21)
flood storage 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, 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.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202413 Jun
Amendments including reinstatement of 3 windows in the ground floor western side elevation of the link block…
PendingNon-material amendment2024/2423/P - 201830 Nov
Refurbishment of the current office building including installation of new and replacement rooflights at…
ConditionsFull Planning Permission2018/5903/P
Source: Camden
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