Planning application
Land to west of Royal Mail Sorting office bounded by Phoenix Place, Mount Pleasant, Gough Street & Calthorpe St. Camden WC1.
Relates to 2013/3807/P, 2018/1054/P, 2018/0817/P
Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.
Proposal
Amendment of Condition 9 (detailed surface water drainage scheme) and 23 (lighting strategy), to allow the details to be submitted prior to superstructure works rather than pre-commencement, to planning permission 2013/3807/P granted on 30th March 2015 (as amended by 2018/0817/P dated 01/05/2018 and 2018/1054/P dated 12/04/2018) by the Greater London Authority (for new buildings of 5-15 storeys, 345 dwellings, 823sqm of flexible retail and community floorspace and associated
As published by the council, reference 2018/2586/P
Application record
- Reference
- 2018/2586/P
- Type
- Non-Material Amendments
- Status
- Granted As published: FINAL DECISION
- Decision
- Granted
- Received
- 4 Jun 2018
- Validated
- 7 Jun 2018
- Decided
- 22 Jun 2018
- Ward
- Holborn & Covent Garden (Pre May 2022)
- Decision by
- Delegated
Site history
Applications at this address on the Camden register
This site has had 29 applications since 2014: 28 approved, 0 refused.
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2022/2513/P Granted
Land to west of Royal Mail Sorting office bounded by Phoenix Place, Mount Pleasant, Gough Street & Calthorpe St. Camden WC1.
Discharge of Condition 28 (acoustic isolation and anti-vibration measures), for Phase 2 of the development only, to planning permission 2013/3807/P granted on 30th March 2015 (as amended by 2018/0817/P dated 01/05/2018, 2018/1054/P dated 12/04/2018, 2020/0921/P dated 16/03/2020 and 2021/3338/P dated 04/11/2021) by the Greater London Authority (for new buildings of 5-15 storeys, 345 dwellings, 823sqm of flexible retail and community floorspace).
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2022/2565/P Granted
Land to west of Royal Mail Sorting office bounded by Phoenix Place, Mount Pleasant, Gough Street & Calthorpe St. Camden WC1.
Conversion of internal residential amenity space (residents gym) to a residential unit (C3) with outdoor terrace at Core A6, Phase 1 of the Phoenix Place development.
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2021/3338/P Granted
Land to west of Royal Mail Sorting office bounded by Phoenix Place, Mount Pleasant, Gough Street & Calthorpe St. Camden WC1.
Amendment of planning conditions 2 (approved plans), to update relevant drawing numbers, and 34 (substations), to provide details and make a compliance condition, to planning permission 2013/3807/P granted on 30th March 2015 (as amended by 2018/0817/P, 2018/1054/P, 2018/2586/P, 2019/1931/P, 2019/3364/P, 2019/4136/P, 2019/0921/P, 2020/3333/P) by the Greater London Authority (for new buildings of 5-15 storeys, 345 dwellings, flexible retail and community floorspace and associated works (summary)). NAMELY to allow the variation of approved drawings to incorporate a re-arrangement of the electrical substation, LW switch room, introduction of a gas intake room at ground floor of Block C, omission of plant at roof level of Blocks B and C, and submission of details for the electrical substation to allow Condition 34 to be amended from a prior to commencement of superstructure works to a compliance condition.
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2020/1278/P Granted
Land to west of Royal Mail Sorting office bounded by Phoenix Place, Mount Pleasant, Gough Street & Calthorpe St. Camden WC1.
Conversion of residential amenity space to a one-bedroom, one-person residential unit (C3).
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2020/3333/P Granted
Land to west of Royal Mail Sorting office bounded by Phoenix Place, Mount Pleasant, Gough Street & Calthorpe St. Camden WC1.
Amendment of planning condition 2 (approved plans), to update relevant drawing numbers, to planning permission 2013/3807/P granted on 30th March 2015 (as amended by 2018/0817/P, 2018/1054/P, 2018/2586/P, 2019/1931/P, 2019/3364/P, 2019/4136/P, 2019/0921/P) by the Greater London Authority (for new buildings of 5-15 storeys, 345 dwellings, flexible retail and community floorspace and associated works (summary)). THE CHANGES to the approved scheme include updates to entrance door design; introduction of louvred spandrel panels; updates to A6 main entrance doors and to Level 04 terrace fenestration/doors
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2020/0921/P Granted
Land to west of Royal Mail Sorting office bounded by Phoenix Place, Mount Pleasant, Gough Street & Calthorpe St. Camden WC1.
Amendment of Conditions 5 (Archaeology; 9 (SUDS); 11 (Sound Insulation); 19 (cycle store); 20 (waste storage), to allow the details to be submitted prior to the relevant handover phase of the development, to planning permission 2013/3807/P granted on 30th March 2015 (as amended by 2018/0817/P dated 01/05/2018 and 2018/1054/P dated 12/04/2018) by the Greater London Authority (for new buildings of 5-15 storeys, 345 dwellings, 823sqm of flexible retail and community floorspace).
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2019/0693/P Granted
Land to west of Royal Mail Sorting office bounded by Phoenix Place, Mount Pleasant, Gough Street & Calthorpe St. Camden WC1.
Details of internal (long-stay) cycle parking facilities at Block A (Phase 1, Section 1) to partially discharge Condition 19 (cycle storage), for the internal (long-stay) cycle parking in Block A only, of planning permission 2013/3807/P granted on 30th March 2015 by the Greater London Authority (for new buildings of 5-15 storeys, 345 dwellings, 823sqm of flexible retail and community floorspace and associated works (summary)).
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2019/0594/P Granted
Land to west of Royal Mail Sorting office bounded by Phoenix Place, Mount Pleasant, Gough Street & Calthorpe St. Camden WC1.
Details of doors or gates and means of escape fronting the highway, for Phase 1 (Block A) only, to partially discharge Condition 33 of 2013/3807/P of planning permission 2013/3807/P granted on 30th March 2015 by the Greater London Authority (for new buildings of 5-15 storeys, 345 dwellings, 823sqm of flexible retail and community floorspace and associated works (summary)).
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2019/0498/P Granted
Land to west of Royal Mail Sorting office bounded by Phoenix Place, Mount Pleasant, Gough Street & Calthorpe St. Camden WC1.
Details of glazing sound insultation performance to partially discharge (for Phase 1 of the development) Condition 18 of planning permission 2013/3807/P granted on 30th March 2015 by the Greater London Authority (for new buildings of 5-15 storeys, 345 dwellings, 823sqm of flexible retail and community floorspace and associated works (summary)).
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2019/0463/P Granted
Land to west of Royal Mail Sorting office bounded by Phoenix Place, Mount Pleasant, Gough Street & Calthorpe St. Camden WC1.
Discharge of Condition 15a - Privacy Measures/Glazing of planning permission 2013/3807/P granted on 30th March 2015 by the Greater London Authority (for new buildings of 5-15 storeys, 345 dwellings, 823sqm of flexible retail and community floorspace and associated works (summary)).
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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4 Jun 2018
Received by Camden
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7 Jun 2018
Validated
Checked as complete and ready for consideration.
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22 Jun 2018
Decision issued: Granted
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22 Jul 2026
Added to PlanIndex
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30 Sep 2026
Status changed to FINAL DECISION
Previously Final Decision.
Related applications
Cases linked to this one on the register
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2013/3807/P Granted
Land to west of Royal Mail Sorting office bounded by Phoenix Place, Mount Pleasant, Gough Street & Calthorpe St. Camden WC1.
Comprehensive redevelopment, following the demolition of existing buildings, to construct four new buildings ranging from 5 to 15 storeys (above basement level) in height, to provide 38,724 sqm (GIA) of residential floorspace (345 dwellings) (Class C3), 823 sqm (GIA) of flexible retail and community floorspace (Use Classes A1, A2, A3, D1 or D2), with associated energy centre, waste and storage areas, basement level residential car parking (54 spaces), the re-provision of Royal Mail staff car parking (approx 196 spaces) cycle parking, residential cycle parking (431 residential spaces) hard and soft landscaping to provide public and private areas of open space, alterations to the public highway and all other necessary excavation and enabling works. The application is accompanied by an Environmental Statement. The proposed redevelopment is to be considered is the context of the redevelopment of the adjacent site, north of the Sorting Office building (within the London Borough of Islington) which has been submitted simultaneously under the Islington planning & conservation area consent application reference numbers: P2013/1423 & P2013/1435. That development involves: The demolition of existing buildings to construct 3 to 12 storey buildings, providing 38,015sqm (336 dwellings) residential floorspace (Class C3), 4,260sqm (GIA) office floorspace (Class B1), 1.428sqm flexible retail and community floorspace, (Classes A1, A2, A3, D1 or D2) with associated energy centre, waste and storage areas, car (65 spaces) and cycle (523 spaces) parking, hard and soft landscaping to provide public and private areas of open space, alterations to the public highway and construction of a new vehicle ramp to basement level to service Royal Mail operations, an acoustic roof deck over the existing servicing yard and other necessary excavation and enabling works. This application is accompanied by an Environmental Statement.
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2018/1054/P Granted
Land to west of Royal Mail Sorting office bounded by Phoenix Place, Mount Pleasant, Gough Street & Calthorpe St. Camden WC1.
Amendment of Condition 14 (treatment of Phoenix Place), to allow the details to be preliminary rather than full and to not require details of the TfL quietway, to planning permission 2013/3807/P granted on 30th March 2015 by the Greater London Authority (for new buildings of 5-15 storeys, 345 dwellings, 823sqm of flexible retail and community floorspace and associated works (summary)).
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2018/0817/P Granted
Land to west of Royal Mail Sorting office bounded by Phoenix Place, Mount Pleasant, Gough Street & Calthorpe Street Camden WC1.
Amendment of planning conditions 2(Approved Plans list), 21(Green/Brown Roofs) and 30 and 31 (both Unit Flipping details), to updated relevant drawing numbers, to planning permission 2013/3807/P granted on 30th March 2015 by the Greater London Authority (for new buildings of 5-15 storeys, 345 dwellings, flexible retail and community floorspace and associated works (summary)). THE CHANGES to the approved scheme include the rearrangement of internal layouts of residential units and cores A3 to A7; alterations to basement layout; amendments to the approved residential unit mix (including 3 additional affordable rent units and 3 less private units and dwelling size mix within the private tenure); changes to building elevations and landscaping/amenity spaces.
3 later applications on the register refer to this one:
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2021/3338/P Granted
Land to west of Royal Mail Sorting office bounded by Phoenix Place, Mount Pleasant, Gough Street & Calthorpe St. Camden WC1.
Amendment of planning conditions 2 (approved plans), to update relevant drawing numbers, and 34 (substations), to provide details and make a compliance condition, to planning permission 2013/3807/P granted on 30th March 2015 (as amended by 2018/0817/P, 2018/1054/P, 2018/2586/P, 2019/1931/P, 2019/3364/P, 2019/4136/P, 2019/0921/P, 2020/3333/P) by the Greater London Authority (for new buildings of 5-15 storeys, 345 dwellings, flexible retail and community floorspace and associated works (summary)). NAMELY to allow the variation of approved drawings to incorporate a re-arrangement of the electrical substation, LW switch room, introduction of a gas intake room at ground floor of Block C, omission of plant at roof level of Blocks B and C, and submission of details for the electrical substation to allow Condition 34 to be amended from a prior to commencement of superstructure works to a compliance condition.
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2020/3333/P Granted
Land to west of Royal Mail Sorting office bounded by Phoenix Place, Mount Pleasant, Gough Street & Calthorpe St. Camden WC1.
Amendment of planning condition 2 (approved plans), to update relevant drawing numbers, to planning permission 2013/3807/P granted on 30th March 2015 (as amended by 2018/0817/P, 2018/1054/P, 2018/2586/P, 2019/1931/P, 2019/3364/P, 2019/4136/P, 2019/0921/P) by the Greater London Authority (for new buildings of 5-15 storeys, 345 dwellings, flexible retail and community floorspace and associated works (summary)). THE CHANGES to the approved scheme include updates to entrance door design; introduction of louvred spandrel panels; updates to A6 main entrance doors and to Level 04 terrace fenestration/doors
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2018/5448/P Granted
Land to west of Royal Mail Sorting office bounded by Phoenix Place, Mount Pleasant, Gough Street & Calthorpe St. Camden WC1.
Details of drainage to partially discharge Condition 9 (SUDS) in relation to Phase 1 of planning permission 2013/3807/P granted on 30th March 2015 by the Greater London Authority (as amended by 2018/2586/P dated 22/06/2018) (for new buildings of 5-15 storeys, 345 dwellings, 823sqm of flexible retail and community floorspace and associated works (summary)).
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
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