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2 Waterhouse Square 140 Holborn London EC1N 2ST

2023/3419/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 5 February 2025

Council decision: Granted Subject to a Section 106 Legal AgreementPlanning committee

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

Proposal

Partial demolition, refurbishment and extension of existing office building to provide commercial floorspace (Class E) at 2 Waterhouse Square including external alterations, reconfiguration of entrances and servicing arrangements, new hard and soft landscaping, provision of cycle parking and other ancillary works.

Received
4 August 2023
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Holborn and Covent Garden
  1. Received4 Aug
  2. Validated21 Aug
  3. Consult.26 Oct
  4. Target5 Feb
  5. Decided5 Feb

Decided in 534 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at 2 Waterhouse Square 140 Holborn London EC1N 2ST. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 551 days, 72 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Hatton Garden conservation area, with 4 listed buildings 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 240 applications in total for the EC1N 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
EC1N 2ST
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
Commercial, business & service uses
Scale / size
Large

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 August 2023
Consultation expiry
26 October 2023
Consultation start
21 August 2023
Consultation end
26 October 2023
Last date for comments
26 November 2023
Target decision date
5 February 2025
Committee meeting
15 February 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
534 days

Publicity

Site notice start
23 August 2023

Additional information

Documents
155

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: Hatton Garden
  • Listed building: (North side) No.142 Prudential Assurance BuildingOn 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 (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.

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2023
    4 Aug

    Partial demolition, refurbishment and extension of existing office building to provide commercial floorspace…

    This applicationConditionsFull2023/3419/P
  2. 2023
    4 Aug

    Partial demolition, refurbishment and extension of existing office building to provide commercial floorspace…

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside2023/3420/L

Source: Camden

Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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