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UCL Main Building Portico Gower Street London WC1E 6BT

2025/3264/LListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 4 September 2025

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

External refurbishment, repair and maintenance works comprising stone cleaning and repointing, stone indent and pin repairs, replacement of stone roundel, replacement and repair works to lead flashing, replacement of timber cills, glazed block repairs, cleaning and repairs to roof coverings, and other associated works.

Received
25 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bloomsbury
  1. Received25 Jul
  2. Validated28 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target31 Aug
  5. Decided4 Sep

Decided in 38 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application at UCL Main Building Portico Gower Street London WC1E 6BT. Camden has handled 1,652 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days, 8 days quicker than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 395 applications across Bloomsbury. We hold 395 applications in total for the WC1E postcode area.

97% of heritage 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
WC1E 6BT
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 July 2025
Target decision date
31 August 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
34 days

Additional information

Documents
21

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Bloomsbury
  • Listed building: Grade II: 23, Gower PlaceOn this site · +11 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

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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.

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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Source: Camden

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