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UCL Wilkins Building Gower Street London WC1E 6BT

2025/4986/AAdvertisement ConsentApproved

Approved on 16 January 2026

Council decision: GrantedPlanning committee

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Proposal

Display of 9 x banner advertisements in between the columns of the portico on the Wilkins Building, with associated fixings.

Received
4 November 2025
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Bloomsbury
  1. Received4 Nov
  2. Validated6 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target4 Nov
  5. Decided16 Jan

Decided in 71 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an advertising consent application at UCL Wilkins Building Gower Street London WC1E 6BT. Camden has handled 499 applications of this type. This one was decided in 73 days, 3 weeks longer 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.

81% of advertising 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
Advertisement Consent
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 November 2025
Target decision date
4 November 2025

Additional information

Documents
14

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.

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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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Associated applications

  1. 2025
    4 Nov

    Display of 9 x banner advertisements in between the columns of the portico on the Wilkins Building, with…

    This applicationApprovedAdvertisement consent2025/4986/A
  2. 2025
    31 Oct

    Installation of reversible internal threaded sockets within the dims of the portico columns of the Wilkins…

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside2025/4930/L

Source: Camden

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