Request for screening opinion under Regulation 15 of the Town and Country Planning Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Regulations 2017, for proposed development involving the partial demolition of the non-designated existing buildings and structures on the site and the retention, refurbishment and partial extension to the listed Lethaby Building. The proposals include circa 431 hotel rooms (C1), exhibition space, a cultural use, gym, other ancillary hotel uses and 33 affordable housing units. The resulting buildings within the development include the ground level plus 5 storey Lethaby Building, a new ground level plus 8 storey block and the refurbished and extended Red Lion Building which would range between ground level plus 7 storeys up to ground level plus 14 storeys. The siting and layout of buildings within the site would define a new pedestrian street and public courtyard space.
Lethaby Building, Former Cochrane Theatre, 12-42 Southampton Row & 1-4 Red Lion Square London WC1B
Final DecisionReference: 2020/0600/PLondon Borough of Camden
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Application location
Lethaby Building, Former Cochrane Theatre, 12-42 Southampton Row & 1-4 Red Lion Square London WC1B
Request for screening opinion under Regulation 15 of the Town and Country Planning Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Regulations 2017, for proposed development involving the partial demolition of the non-designated existing buildings and structures on the site and the retention, refurbishment and partial extension to the listed Lethaby Building. The proposals include circa 431 hotel rooms (C1), exhibition space, a cultural use, gym, other ancillary hotel uses and 33 affordable housing units. The resulting buildings within the development include the ground level plus 5 storey Lethaby Building, a new ground level plus 8 storey block and the refurbished and extended Red Lion Building which would range between ground level plus 7 storeys up to ground level plus 14 storeys. The siting and layout of buildings within the site would define a new pedestrian street and public courtyard space.
Proposal details
Reference
2020/0600/P
Ward
Holborn & Covent Garden (Pre May 2022)
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