Acorn House 314-320 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8DP

2025/4543/PApproval of DetailsApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 29 October 2025

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

Post-construction Whole Life-Cycle Carbon Assessment required by condition 33 of planning permission 2020/3880/P granted 01/11/2021 for the redevelopment of Acorn House as a part 6, part 10 storey mixed-use building with 33 affordable homes (with external playspace at level 6, a community room and terrace at level 9), affordable office space and retail unit at ground and basement level; together with cycle parking facilities and associated ancillary uses.

Received: 10 October 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: London Borough of Camden
Ward: Kings Cross

ReceivedReceived10 Oct
ValidatedValidated21 Oct
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date11 Nov
DecidedDecided29 Oct

Decided in 8 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Acorn House 314-320 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8DP. Camden has handled 713 applications of this type. This one was decided in 19 days, 4 weeks quicker than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There have been 8 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 143 applications across Kings Cross. We hold 1,230 applications in total for the WC1X postcode area.

98% of conditions 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: WC1X 8DP
Application type: Approval of Details
Scale / size: Medium
Number of dwellings: 33

Planning application dates

Date validated: 21 October 2025
Target decision date: 11 November 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period: 21 days

Additional information

Documents: 5

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Conservation area: Bloomsbury
Listed building: Grade II: 64, 66 (Queen'S Head Public House) and 68 Acton Street and Attached RailingsOn or next to this site · +1 more
Article 4 direction: Basements+1 more
Brownfield land register: 314-320 Acorn House, Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1X 8DPRegister site at or near this address · +1 more
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.

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Planning history at this site

9 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Camden

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