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Kingsway House, 99-103 Kingsway & 4 Great Queen Street London WC2B 5DJ, WC2B 6QU, WC2B 6QX

2025/5575/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 9 October 2026

Council decision: Granted Subject to a Section 106 Legal Agreement

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Proposal

Demolition of 4 Great Queen Street and 62 Parker Street and erection of a new 7 storey building in connection with the change of use of Kingsway House from commercial use (Class E) to provide a combined a hotel use (Class C1), extension and remodelling of upper storeys of Kingsway House to accommodate further C1 hotel floorspace, provision of ancillary facilities, Class E commercial unit at ground floor level of Kingsway House, and associated works including refurbishment of Kingsway House façade.

Received
16 December 2025
Ward
Holborn and Covent Garden
  1. Received16 Dec
  2. Validated9 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target17 Jan
  5. Decided9 Oct

Decided in 304 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Kingsway House, 99-103 Kingsway & 4 Great Queen Street London WC2B 5DJ, WC2B 6QU, WC2B 6QX. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 304 days, 36 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Kingsway conservation area, with 11 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 199 applications in total for the WC2B 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
WC2B 5DJ
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 December 2025
Target decision date
17 January 2026

Planning decision

Case officer
Josh Lawlor
Statutory period
32 days

Additional information

Documents
34

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Kingsway
  • Listed building: Grade II: 60, Parker StreetOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • 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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