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181 Ground Floor Drury Lane London Camden WC2B 5QF

2024/1858/INVALIDCertificate of Lawfulness (Proposed)Withdrawn
Outline / PiP

Withdrawn

Council decision: Withdrawn DecisionWithdrawn

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

Proposal

Change of use from escape room (Sui Generis) to retail (Class E)

Received
10 May 2024
Decision level
Withdrawn
Ward
Holborn and Covent Garden
  1. Received10 May
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 181 Ground Floor Drury Lane London Camden WC2B 5QF. Camden has handled 178 applications of this type. The site is in the Seven Dials (Covent Garden) conservation area, with 3 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 outline 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 5QF
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness (Proposed)
Development type
Commercial, business & service uses

Planning application dates

Validated
10 May 2024

Planning decision

Decision
Withdrawn Decision

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)
  • Article 4 direction: Basements+1 more
  • Brownfield land register: 11-13 Macklin Street London WC2B 5NHRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

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 and heritage coasts.

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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