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50 A Leather Lane London EC1N 7TP

2023/3983/PFull Planning PermissionRefused
Full

Refused on 18 February 2024

Council decision: Refused and Warning of Enforcement Action to be TakenDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Installation of two external roller shutters (Retrospective).

Received
22 September 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Holborn and Covent Garden
  1. Received22 Sep
  2. Validated12 Dec
  3. Consult.14 Jan
  4. Target6 Feb
  5. Decided18 Feb

Decided in 68 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 50 A Leather Lane London EC1N 7TP. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 149 days, 14 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Hatton Garden conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 338 applications across Holborn and Covent Garden. We hold 240 applications in total for the EC1N postcode area.

90% of full 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
EC1N 7TP
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
Commercial, business & service uses
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 December 2023
Consultation start
15 December 2023
Last date for comments
14 January 2024
Target decision date
6 February 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
15 December 2023

Additional information

Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Hatton Garden
  • Article 4 direction: Basements+1 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

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, 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

Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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