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59, St Giles High Street, London, WC2H 8LH

2025/3178/PFull planning & listed building consentApproved
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Approved on 4 December 2025

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Alterations including the internal refurbishment and restoration of the existing shopfront, with a change of use to Class E(a) (Display or retail sale of goods, other than hot food).

Submitted
21 July 2025
  1. Received21 Jul
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided4 Dec

Decided in 136 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at 59, St Giles High Street, London, WC2H 8LH. Camden has handled 116 applications of this type. This one was decided in 136 days, 12 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Denmark Street conservation area, with 16 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 478 applications in total for the WC2H postcode area.

95% of full planning & listed building consent 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
WC2H 8LH
Application type
Full planning & listed building consent

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Denmark Street
  • Listed building: Grade II: 59, St Giles High StreetOn this site · +2 more
  • 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.

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

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