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23-28 Congress House Great Russell Street London Camden WC1B 3LN

2023/5170/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 13 June 2024

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Refurbishment, installation of secondary glazing and insulation to the first floor exposed external soffit, ventilation louvres to Southern and Courtyard elevations and roof level plant

Received
8 December 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bloomsbury
  1. Received8 Dec
  2. Validated22 Jan
  3. Consult.3 Apr
  4. Target5 Feb
  5. Decided13 Jun

Decided in 143 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for window replacement at 23-28 Congress House Great Russell Street London Camden WC1B 3LN. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 188 days, 20 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 13 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 394 applications across Bloomsbury. We hold 640 applications in total for the WC1B 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
WC1B 3LN
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
B1 Business
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 January 2024
Consultation expiry
3 April 2024
Consultation start
22 January 2024
Consultation end
3 April 2024
Last date for comments
3 April 2024
Target decision date
5 February 2024
Permission expires
13 June 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
14 days

Publicity

Site notice start
24 January 2024

Additional information

Documents
10

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
    8 Dec

    Refurbishment, installation of secondary glazing and insulation to the first floor exposed external soffit…

    This applicationApprovedFull2023/5170/P
  2. 2023
    8 Dec

    Refurbishment, installation of secondary glazing and insulation to the first floor exposed external soffit…

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside2024/0246/L

Source: Camden

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