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55-59 Gordon Square Bloomsbury London WC1H 0NU

2023/3713/LListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 1 November 2023

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Internal works including the closing off of internal doors, the reinstatement of an original door, a new internal parition and the refurbishment of tea points.

Received
6 September 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bloomsbury
  1. Received6 Sep
  2. Validated2 Oct
  3. Consult.6 Sep
  4. Target16 Oct
  5. Decided1 Nov

Decided in 30 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application at 55-59 Gordon Square Bloomsbury London WC1H 0NU. Camden has handled 1,652 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 395 applications across Bloomsbury. We hold 814 applications in total for the WC1H 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
WC1H 0NU
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Development type
D1 Non-Residential Institution
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 October 2023
Last date for comments
6 September 2023
Target decision date
16 October 2023
Permission expires
1 November 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
14 days

Additional information

Documents
21

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

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, 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

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