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43 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3PD

2023/5128/LListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 12 December 2023

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Amendments (Changes to internal cabinetry, M&E plant, additional smoke vent equipment, reduced lift capacity and other internal and external changes) to listed building consent 2020/2149/L granted 13/05/2021 for reinstatement of shopfront door and windows on Great Russell Street and Coptic Street at ground floor, repair and decoration of facade and replacement of modern windows. Installation of new roof plant with a noise enclosure, replacement of dumb waiter with new lift shaft and associated roof works and blocked pavement lights on Coptic Street to be reinstated.

Received
29 November 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bloomsbury
  1. Received29 Nov
  2. Validated4 Dec
  3. Consult.29 Nov
  4. Target
  5. Decided12 Dec

Decided in 8 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application for window replacement at 43 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3PD. Camden has handled 1,652 applications of this type. This one was decided in 13 days, 5 weeks quicker than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 15 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 395 applications across Bloomsbury. We hold 641 applications in total for the WC1B 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
WC1B 3PD
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Development type
A1 Shop, B1a Business - Office
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 December 2023
Last date for comments
29 November 2023
Permission expires
12 December 2026

Additional information

Documents
1

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2023
    29 Nov

    Non-material amendment to planning permission (2020/1426/P

    ApprovedNon-material amendmentFiled alongside2023/5066/P
  2. 2023
    29 Nov

    Amendments (Changes to internal cabinetry, M&E plant, additional smoke vent equipment, reduced lift capacity…

    This applicationApprovedListed building consent2023/5128/L

Source: Camden

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

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