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3 - 5 Bedford Row London WC1R 4BU

2023/3445/PVariation or Removal of Condition(s)Approved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 26 June 2024

Council decision: Granted Subject to a Section 106 Legal AgreementDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

Variation of Condition 2 (Approved Plans & Documents) of planning reference 2022/4518/P dated 09/05/23 for extensions and alterations of 3 - 5 Bedford Row and 3 - 5 Jockey's Fields to create additional commercial space (Class E), including erection of a setback fourth floor roof extension to the Bedford Row buildings, erection of a 3rd floor mansard roof extension and remodelled 2nd floor to the Jockey Fields buildings plus associated fenestration changes to its ground and first floors, reconstruction of the intervening link structure with two additional floors plus roof terrace above and rear closet wing extensions, plus green roofs, cycle parking, waste/recycling storage, plant and other associated works.

Received
22 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Holborn and Covent Garden
  1. Received22 Aug
  2. Validated29 Aug
  3. Consult.19 Sep
  4. Target24 Oct
  5. Decided26 Jun

Decided in 302 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at 3 - 5 Bedford Row London WC1R 4BU. Camden has handled 713 applications of this type. This one was decided in 309 days, 37 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 12 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 208 applications in total for the WC1R postcode area.

98% of conditions 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
WC1R 4BU
Application type
Variation or Removal of Condition(s)
Development type
Commercial, business & service uses
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 August 2023
Consultation expiry
19 September 2023
Consultation start
29 August 2023
Consultation end
19 September 2023
Last date for comments
1 October 2023
Target decision date
24 October 2023
Permission expires
26 June 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
1 September 2023

Additional information

Documents
25

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Bloomsbury
  • Listed building: Grade II: Numbers 1-7 and Attached Railings and Lamp HolderOn this site
  • Article 4 direction: Basements+1 more
  • Brownfield land register: 46, 47 & 47a Bedford Row London WC1R 4LRRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (19)

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 and heritage coasts.

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© 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2023
    22 Aug

    Variation of Condition 2 (Approved Plans & Documents) of planning reference 2022/4518/P

    This applicationConditionsVariation of conditions (s73)2023/3445/P
  2. 2023
    22 Aug

    Listed Building Consent relating to extensions and alterations of 3 - 5 Bedford Row and 3 - 5 Jockey's…

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside2023/3447/L

Source: Camden

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