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Telecommunications Site at New Penderel House 283 High Holborn London WC1V 7HP

2025/4906/PGPDO Prior Approval DeterminationApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 3 March 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval Required - Approval GivenDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Upgrade of existing telecommunications base station. Removal and replacement of 4no antennas (overall height 35.9m AGL) and other associated ancillary works thereto.

Received
30 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Holborn and Covent Garden
  1. Received30 Oct
  2. Validated2 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target22 Mar
  5. Decided3 Mar

Decided in 91 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Telecommunications Site at New Penderel House 283 High Holborn London WC1V 7HP. Camden has handled 178 applications of this type. This one was decided in 124 days, 11 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 338 applications across Holborn and Covent Garden. We hold 269 applications in total for the WC1V postcode area.

97% of outline 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
WC1V 7HP
Application type
GPDO Prior Approval Determination
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 December 2025
Target decision date
22 March 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
110 days

Additional information

Documents
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Bloomsbury
  • Article 4 direction: Basements+1 more
  • Brownfield land register: 294-295 High Holborn London WC1V 7JGRegister 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 (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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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Source: Camden

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