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Urbanest House Canal Reach London N1C 4BD

2023/3315/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 6 February 2024

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of use from a café / restaurant use (Use Class E) to student amenity space (Sui Generis).

Received
11 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Kings Cross
  1. Received11 Aug
  2. Validated13 Dec
  3. Consult.8 Jan
  4. Target22 Sep
  5. Decided6 Feb

Decided in 55 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Urbanest House Canal Reach London N1C 4BD. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 179 days, 19 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 143 applications across Kings Cross. We hold 119 applications in total for the N1C 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
N1C 4BD
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
Sui Generis
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 December 2023
Consultation start
15 December 2023
Last date for comments
8 January 2024
Target decision date
22 September 2023
Permission expires
6 February 2027

Publicity

Site notice start
15 December 2023

Additional information

Documents
8

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
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

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, 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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