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41 Whitfield Street London W1T 2SG

2025/0225/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 19 May 2026

Council decision: GrantedPlanning committee

Proposal

Change of use from a toy museum and ancillary toy shop (Class F1) to a hireable cultural and creative space at basement, ground and first floors (Sui Generis), and hotel accommodation at second and third floors (Class C1) providing 2x bedrooms.

Received
20 January 2025
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Bloomsbury
  1. Received20 Jan
  2. Validated22 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target29 Mar
  5. Decided19 May

Decided in 482 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 41 Whitfield Street London W1T 2SG. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 484 days, 62 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Fitzroy Square conservation area, with 12 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 323 applications in total for the W1T 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
W1T 2SG
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 January 2025
Target decision date
29 March 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
431 days

Additional information

Documents
30

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: Fitzroy Square
  • Listed building: Grade II: 15, Warren 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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