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81 Gower Street London Wc1E6Hj

PSX0004095Certificate of Lawfulness (Existing)Approved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 4 April 2000

Council decision: Grant Cert. of Lawful Existing UseDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for existing use of basement, ground 1st, 2nd & 3rd floors as office use, as shown by drawing number 11/99/J4003 and General Arrangement Plan (unnumbered).

Received
25 January 2000
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bloomsbury (Pre May 2022)
  1. Received25 Jan
  2. Validated11 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided4 Apr

Decided in 53 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 81 GOWER STREET LONDON WC1E6HJ. Camden has handled 241 applications of this type. This one was decided in 70 days, 3 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 395 applications in total for the WC1E postcode area.

100% of amendment 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 6HJ
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness (Existing)
Development type
Camden Dataload - used for defaulting
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 February 2000

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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

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