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4, Bloomsbury Place, London, WC1A 2QA

2025/0636/PFull planning permissionApproved
Full

Approved on 17 April 2026

Council decision: Granted Subject to a Section 106 Legal Agreement

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of Use from Offices (Class E) to a flexible Use as either Offices (Class E) and/or Education Class F1 (a)

Submitted
24 April 2025
  1. Received24 Apr
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided17 Apr

Decided in 358 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at 4, Bloomsbury Place, London, WC1A 2QA. Camden has handled 722 applications of this type. This one was decided in 358 days, 44 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 10 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 394 applications across Bloomsbury. We hold 179 applications in total for the WC1A 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
WC1A 2QA
Application type
Full planning permission

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    22 Oct

    Details pursuant to Condition 4 (Cycle Parking) of planning permission ref. 2025/0636/P

    PendingDischarge of conditions2026/4652/P
  2. 2025
    24 Apr

    Change of Use from Offices (Class E) to a flexible Use as either Offices (Class E) and/or Education Class F1…

    This applicationApprovedFull planning permission2025/0636/P

Source: Camden

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