Acorn House 314-320 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8DP

2023/3546/PApproval of DetailsApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 18 March 2024

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Fire statement required by condition 32 of planning permission ref: 2020/3880/P granted 01/11/2021 for the redevelopment of Acorn House as a part 6, part 10 storey mixed-use building with 33 affordable homes (with external playspace at level 6, a community room and terrace at level 9), affordable office space and retail unit at ground and basement level; together with cycle parking facilities and associated ancillary uses.

Received: 29 August 2023
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: London Borough of Camden
Ward: Kings Cross

ReceivedReceived29 Aug
ValidatedValidated4 Sep
Consult.Consultation25 Sep
TargetTarget Date30 Oct
DecidedDecided18 Mar

Decided in 196 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Acorn House 314-320 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8DP. Camden has handled 713 applications of this type. This one was decided in 202 days, 22 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There have been 8 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 143 applications across Kings Cross. We hold 1,230 applications in total for the WC1X 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: WC1X 8DP
Application type: Approval of Details
Development type: All Others eg. adverts, aods, telecoms etc.
Scale / size: Medium
Number of dwellings: 33

Planning application dates

Date validated: 4 September 2023
Consultation expiry: 25 September 2023
Consultation start: 4 September 2023
Consultation end: 25 September 2023
Last date for comments: 25 September 2023
Target decision date: 30 October 2023
Permission expires: 18 March 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Documents: 5

Site constraints

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Conservation area: Bloomsbury
Article 4 direction: Basements+1 more
Brownfield land register: 314-320 Acorn House, Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1X 8DPRegister 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 (20)

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 and heritage coasts.

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Planning history at this site

9 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Camden

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