First Avenue House 42-49 High Holborn London WC1V 6NP
Approved on 15 April 2026
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Non-material amendment (increased height of chiller units, addition of ducting, access steps, walkways and pipework) to planning permission 2024/1825/P 'Replacement of three roof chillers with three new chiller units'.
- Received
- 20 March 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Camden
- Ward
- Holborn and Covent Garden
- ReceivedReceived20 Mar
- ValidatedValidated24 Mar
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date14 Apr
- DecidedDecided15 Apr
Decided in 22 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a planning application at First Avenue House 42-49 High Holborn London WC1V 6NP. Camden has handled 108 applications of this type. This one was decided in 22 days, 4 weeks quicker than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 7 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 336 applications across Holborn and Covent Garden. We hold 269 applications in total for the WC1V postcode area.
100% of non material amendments 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 6NP
- Application type
- Non Material Amendments
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 24 March 2026
- Target decision date
- 14 April 2026
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 21 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 7
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Bloomsbury
- Article 4 direction: Basements
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.
Also checked, none recorded (21)
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, 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.
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Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
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Replacement of three roof chillers with three new chiller units.
PendingFull Planning PermissionPart of2024/1825/P
Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Camden
Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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