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77-91 Former Castlewood House New Oxford Street London WC1A 1DG

2024/1969/PNon-Material AmendmentsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 14 June 2024

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

Non-material amendment for planning permission 2017/0618/P dated 21/12/2017 (as amended by planning permission 2021/4162/P dated 15/07/2022) for 'Demolition of existing office building at Castlewood House (Class B1), and erection of an 11 storey office building (Class B1) with retail and restaurant uses (Class A1/A3) at ground floor level; enlargement of existing double basement level and formation of roof terraces and rooftop plant along with associated highways, landscaping, and public realm improvement works. Partial demolition of Medius House with retention of the existing facade, and erection of a two storey roof extension including private roof terraces, in connection with the change of use of the building from office (Class B1) and retail (Class A1) to provide 18 affordable housing units (Class C3) at upper floor levels with retained retail use at ground floor level.', namely to include installation of roof top equipment, installation of new planter and inclusion of post screening room within loading area

Received
17 May 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Holborn and Covent Garden
  1. Received17 May
  2. Validated30 May
  3. Consult.17 May
  4. Target13 Jun
  5. Decided14 Jun

Decided in 15 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 77-91 Former Castlewood House New Oxford Street London WC1A 1DG. Camden has handled 241 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 3 weeks quicker than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in 6 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 179 applications in total for the WC1A postcode area.

100% of amendment 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
WC1A 1DG
Application type
Non-Material Amendments
Development type
All Others eg. adverts, aods, telecoms etc.
Scale / size
Medium
Number of dwellings
18

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 May 2024
Last date for comments
17 May 2024
Target decision date
13 June 2024
Permission expires
14 June 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
14 days

Additional information

Documents
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: BloomsburyNext to the site
  • Article 4 direction: Basements+1 more
  • Brownfield land register: Castlewood House and Medius House 77-91 and 63-69 New Oxford Street London WC1A 1DGRegister site at or near this address · +2 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, 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.

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© 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.

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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2023
    14 Apr

    Non-material amendment for planning permission 2017/0618/P

    ApprovedNon-material amendment2023/1085/P

Source: Camden

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