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30-31 Great Queen Street London Camden WC2B 5AE

2023/5175/LListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 25 June 2024

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Works to front door and internal alterations at all levels associated with office rerfurbishment, including removal of partitions and provision of cycling facilities.

Received
8 December 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Holborn and Covent Garden
  1. Received8 Dec
  2. Validated5 Jan
  3. Consult.4 Feb
  4. Target19 Jan
  5. Decided25 Jun

Decided in 172 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application at 30-31 Great Queen Street London Camden WC2B 5AE. Camden has handled 1,652 applications of this type. This one was decided in 200 days, 22 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Seven Dials (Covent Garden) conservation area, with 8 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 199 applications in total for the WC2B 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
WC2B 5AE
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Development type
Commercial, business & service uses
Scale / size
Large

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 January 2024
Consultation start
11 January 2024
Last date for comments
4 February 2024
Target decision date
19 January 2024
Permission expires
25 June 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
14 days

Publicity

Site notice start
11 January 2024

Additional information

Documents
121

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: Seven Dials (Covent Garden)
  • Listed building: Grade II: 30 and 31, Great Queen StreetOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • 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.

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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