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3-5 Whidborne Street London Camden WC1H 8ET

2026/0571/LApproval of Details (Listed Building)Approved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 26 March 2026

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Discharge of condition 4b (details of lantern) for 2025/3928/L (Internal alterations, shopfront restoration and upgrading of the external flue)

Received
12 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Kings Cross
  1. Received12 Feb
  2. Validated17 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target22 Mar
  5. Decided26 Mar

Decided in 37 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application at 3-5 Whidborne Street London Camden WC1H 8ET. Camden has handled 1,652 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 7 days quicker than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 143 applications across Kings Cross. We hold 813 applications in total for the WC1H postcode area.

97% of heritage 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
WC1H 8ET
Application type
Approval of Details (Listed Building)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 February 2026
Target decision date
22 March 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
33 days

Additional information

Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Bloomsbury
  • Listed building: Grade II: McGlynn'sOn or next to this site · +2 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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

Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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