89 Gower Street London WC1E 6AA
Approved on 6 October 2023
Council decision: No Objection to Works to Tree(s) in CADelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
REAR GARDEN: 1 x Fig (T1) - Lift crown to clear neighbouring building by 1m - 2m.
- Received
- 7 September 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Camden
- Ward
- Bloomsbury
- ReceivedReceived7 Sep
- ValidatedValidated7 Sep
- Consult.Consultation7 Sep
- TargetTarget Date14 Sep
- DecidedDecided6 Oct
Decided in 29 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a tree application at 89 Gower Street London WC1E 6AA. Camden has handled 669 applications of this type. This one was decided in 29 days, 3 weeks quicker than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 395 applications across Bloomsbury. We hold 395 applications in total for the WC1E postcode area.
98% of trees 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
- WC1E 6AA
- Application type
- Notification of Intended Works to Tree(s) in a Conservation Area
- Development type
- Tree
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 7 September 2023
- Last date for comments
- 7 September 2023
- Target decision date
- 14 September 2023
- Permission expires
- 6 October 2026
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 7 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 4
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Bloomsbury
- Article 4 direction: Basements
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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.
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Planning history at this site
4 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 201411 Nov
WITHIN GROUNDS: 1 x Lime - Reduce overhanging limbs to boundary line
ApprovedTrees2014/7488/T - 200613 Sep
REAR GARDEN: 1 x Lime - Repollard back to old pollard points.
ApprovedTrees2006/4224/T - 200410 May
REAR GARDEN 1 x Lime - repollard to previous pollard location(heavy reduction), remove epicormic growth.
ApprovedTrees2004/2004/T - 20005 Jun
Internal refurbishment including upgrading of fire safety standards, as shown on drawing numbers 20878a3/07
ApprovedListed building consentLSX0004437
Source: Camden
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