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UCL Main Building Portico Gower Street London WC1E 6BT

2026/2688/LListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 25 August 2026

Council decision: Granted

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Installation of 10no. modular lights to the Portico Columns, and associated works.

Received
29 June 2026
Ward
Bloomsbury
  1. Received29 Jun
  2. Validated25 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target20 Jul
  5. Decided25 Aug

Decided in 61 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a listed building consent application at UCL Main Building Portico Gower Street London WC1E 6BT. Camden has handled 351 applications of this type. This one was decided in 57 days, 8 days 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.

98% of listed building consent 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
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 June 2026
Target decision date
20 July 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Rose Todd
Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

Documents
10

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.

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.

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© 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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