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65 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3BL

2025/4997/AAdvertisement ConsentRefused

Refused on 18 December 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Painted timber signboards in each of the properties windows, with fret cut metal lettering and raised timber bead external lighting fixture above. Installation of a 600x600mm projecting sign board to the west of the entrance on the north facade.

Received
7 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bloomsbury
  1. Received7 Nov
  2. Validated10 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target29 Dec
  5. Decided18 Dec

Decided in 38 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an advertising consent application at 65 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3BL. Camden has handled 499 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days, 8 days quicker than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 18 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 394 applications across Bloomsbury. We hold 640 applications in total for the WC1B 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
WC1B 3BL
Application type
Advertisement Consent
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 November 2025
Target decision date
29 December 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
49 days

Additional information

Documents
12

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: 18-21, Little Russell StreetOn or next to this site
  • Article 4 direction: Basements+1 more
  • 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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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