North Wing, Pearson Building and Slade School of Art - Sound Studio Pearson Building and Slade School of Art WC1E 6HJ
Approved on 14 December 2023
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Internal refurbishment and redecoration works to rooms B58 and B60 of the Slade School of Art, to include replacement doors, replacement acoustic partition and blocking up of internal window, to enable the continued use of the rooms as sound recording studios. Internal redecoration and refurbishment works to room 110A of the Pearson Building, to include secondary glazing, installation of plasterboard wall, and replacement of modern fixtures.
- Received
- 27 October 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Camden
- Ward
- Bloomsbury
- ReceivedReceived27 Oct
- ValidatedValidated3 Nov
- Consult.Consultation24 Nov
- TargetTarget Date15 Dec
- DecidedDecided14 Dec
Decided in 41 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a heritage application for window replacement at North Wing, Pearson Building and Slade School of Art - Sound Studio Pearson Building and Slade School of Art WC1E 6HJ. Camden has handled 1,652 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days. 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 395 applications in total for the WC1E 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
- WC1E 6HJ
- Application type
- Listed Building Consent
- Development type
- Learning & non-residential institution
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 3 November 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 24 November 2023
- Consultation start
- 3 November 2023
- Consultation end
- 24 November 2023
- Last date for comments
- 3 December 2023
- Target decision date
- 15 December 2023
- Permission expires
- 14 December 2026
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 8 November 2023
Additional information
- Documents
- 22
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Bloomsbury
- Listed building: (West side) University College (University of London) & attached railings to N & S wingsOn or next to this site
- Article 4 direction: Basements
- 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.
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Source: Camden
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