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35, Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4SG

2025/1453/AFull planning & display of advertisementsRefused
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Refused on 21 May 2025

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Display of an LCD digital advertising screen integrated within a telephone call box

Submitted
26 March 2025
  1. Received26 Mar
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided21 May

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a planning application at 35, Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4SG. Camden has handled 120 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 338 applications across Holborn and Covent Garden. We hold 206 applications in total for the WC1R postcode area.

35% of full planning & display of advertisements 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 4SG
Application type
Full planning & display of advertisements

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: BloomsburyPart of the 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 (21)

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, 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.

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. 2025
    26 Mar

    Installation of telephone call box with digital screen following removal of existing.

    RefusedAdvertisement consentFiled alongside2025/1326/P
  2. 2025
    26 Mar

    Display of an LCD digital advertising screen integrated within a telephone call box

    This applicationRefusedAdvertisement consent2025/1453/A

Source: Camden

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