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26, Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4HQ

2025/0210/PFull planning permissionApproved
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Approved on 30 July 2025

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Refurbishment and recladding of existing building with extensions at fourth floor adjacent to Theobalds Road and associated works.

Submitted
17 January 2025
  1. Received17 Jan
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided30 Jul

Decided in 194 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a planning application for an extension at 26, Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4HQ. Camden has handled 722 applications of this type. This one was decided in 194 days, 21 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in 5 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 208 applications in total for the WC1R postcode area.

91% of full planning permission 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
WC1R 4HQ
Application type
Full planning permission

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: BloomsburyPart of the site
  • Listed building: Grade II: Conway HallOn or next to this site
  • 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2026
    14 Jul

    Details to partially discharge Condition 3 (Sample of Brick Materials) of planning reference 2025/0210/P

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions2026/2889/P
  2. 2026
    1 May

    Non-Material Amendment to planning reference 2025/0210/P

    ApprovedNon-material amendmentAmendment2026/1751/P
  3. 2025
    17 Jan

    Refurbishment and recladding of existing building with extensions at fourth floor adjacent to Theobalds Road…

    This applicationApprovedFull planning permission2025/0210/P

Source: Camden

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