19 Bedford Square London WC1B 3HH
Approved on 12 March 2025
Council decision: Granted Subject to a Section 106 Legal AgreementDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use from non-residential educational institution (F.1) to use as offices (Class E) and/or non-residential educational institution (Class F.1)
- Received
- 12 April 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Camden
- Ward
- Bloomsbury
- ReceivedReceived12 Apr
- ValidatedValidated13 May
- Consult.Consultation3 Jun
- TargetTarget Date17 Jun
- DecidedDecided12 Mar
Decided in 303 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at 19 Bedford Square London WC1B 3HH. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 334 days, 41 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 6 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 641 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 3HH
- Application type
- Full Planning Permission
- Development type
- Commercial, business & service uses
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 13 May 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 3 June 2024
- Consultation start
- 13 May 2024
- Consultation end
- 3 June 2024
- Last date for comments
- 17 June 2024
- Target decision date
- 17 June 2024
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 35 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 24 May 2024
Additional information
- Documents
- 6
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Bloomsbury
- 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 (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.
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Source: Camden
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