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42-43 Bedford Row London WC1R 4LL

2025/4528/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 18 November 2025

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Replacement of unauthorised UPVC windows with single glazed timber units.

Received
10 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Holborn and Covent Garden
  1. Received10 Oct
  2. Validated14 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target16 Nov
  5. Decided18 Nov

Decided in 35 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for window replacement at 42-43 Bedford Row London WC1R 4LL. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 39 days, 10 days quicker than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 338 applications across Holborn and Covent Garden. We hold 208 applications in total for the WC1R postcode area.

90% of full 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 4LL
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 October 2025
Target decision date
16 November 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
33 days

Additional information

Documents
7

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: Numbers 42 and 43 and Attached RailingsOn this site · +1 more
  • Article 4 direction: Basements+1 more
  • Brownfield land register: 46, 47 & 47a Bedford Row London WC1R 4LRRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (19)

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 and heritage coasts.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

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Associated applications

  1. 2025
    10 Oct

    Replacement of unauthorised UPVC windows with single glazed timber units.

    This applicationApprovedFull2025/4528/P
  2. 2025
    10 Oct

    Replacement of unauthorised UPVC windows with single glazed timber units.

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside2025/4576/L

Source: Camden

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