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3 - 5 Bedford Row London WC1R 4BU

2023/3447/LListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 11 October 2023

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Listed Building Consent relating to extensions and alterations of 3 - 5 Bedford Row and 3 - 5 Jockey's Fields. Amendment to the scheme approved under Listed Building Consent ref. 2022/4750/L to allow design amendments including layout changes from basement to roof level, including a small infill extension to the courtyard at basement level with plant above, changes to the roof terrace at the third floor, and repositioned Bedford Row dry riser inlet together with amendments to the north, south and west elevations including the Jockey's Fields elevation

Received
22 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Holborn and Covent Garden
  1. Received22 Aug
  2. Validated29 Aug
  3. Consult.25 Sep
  4. Target12 Sep
  5. Decided11 Oct

Decided in 43 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application for an extension at 3 - 5 Bedford Row London WC1R 4BU. Camden has handled 1,652 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days. 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.

97% of heritage 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
Listed Building Consent
Development type
Commercial, business & service uses
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 August 2023
Consultation expiry
25 September 2023
Consultation start
29 August 2023
Consultation end
25 September 2023
Last date for comments
1 October 2023
Target decision date
12 September 2023
Permission expires
11 October 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
14 days

Publicity

Site notice start
1 September 2023

Additional information

Documents
43

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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Associated applications

  1. 2023
    22 Aug

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

    ConditionsVariation of conditions (s73)Filed alongside2023/3445/P
  2. 2023
    22 Aug

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

    This applicationApprovedListed building consent2023/3447/L

Source: Camden

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