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Institute Of Education 55 - 59 Gordon Square London WC1H 0NU

2025/3780/T(CA) Notification of Emergency Works to Dead/Dangerous Tree(s)Approved
Prior approval

Approved on 3 October 2025

Council decision: No Objection to Emergency Works (CA)Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

DD 5 Day Notice NURSERY GARDEN AREA: 1 x Fig (T1) - Fell to ground level.

Received
28 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bloomsbury
  1. Received28 Aug
  2. Validated28 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target28 Aug
  5. Decided3 Oct

Decided in 36 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Institute Of Education 55 - 59 Gordon Square London WC1H 0NU. Camden has handled 669 applications of this type. This one was decided in 36 days, 13 days quicker than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 395 applications across Bloomsbury. We hold 814 applications in total for the WC1H postcode area.

98% of trees 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
WC1H 0NU
Application type
(CA) Notification of Emergency Works to Dead/Dangerous Tree(s)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 August 2025
Target decision date
28 August 2025

Additional information

Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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

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