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Proposal
Details to discharge Condition 40 (Waste Water Heat) of planning reference dated 07/03/24 for redevelopment of Selkirk House, 166 High Holborn and 1 Museum Street following the substantial demolition of the existing NCP car park and former Travelodge Hotel to provide a mixed-use scheme, providing office, residential, and town centre uses at ground floor level. Works of part-demolition and refurbishment to 10-12 Museum Street, 35-41 New Oxford Street, and 16A-18 West Central Street to provide further town centre ground floor uses and residential floorspace, including affordable housing provision. Provision of new public realm including a new pedestrian route through the site to link West Central Street with High Holborn. Relocation of cycle hire docking stations on High Holborn. Data via plota.co.uk
Application progress
Approved on 16 Jun 2025 · Delegated · Last checked 23 Oct 2026
Associated applications 9
Site constraints 11
Show all 19 with distances
- 48 m10-12 Museum StreetGrade II
- 54 m43 and 45 New Oxford Street including 16 West Central StreetGrade II
- 56 mQueen Alexandra MansionsGrade II
- 56 mShaftesbury TheatreGrade II
- 58 mKing Edward Mansions and Sovereign HouseGrade II
- 65 m35 and 37 New Oxford StreetGrade II
- 65 mThe Old Crown, 33 New Oxford StreetGrade II
- 73 m186 and 187, Drury LaneGrade II
- 75 mThe Bloomsbury Public HouseGrade II
- 104 mDrinking Fountain at Junction With Shaftesbury AvenueGrade II
- 114 m233 Shaftesbury AvenueGrade II
- 122 mBloomsbury Central Baptist ChurchGrade II
- 122 mJames Smith and Sons, Hazelwood HouseGrade II*
- 122 mChurch of St George and Attached Railings, Gates and LampsGrade I
- 127 m42-47, Museum StreetGrade II
- 129 mSt Mungo's HousingGrade II
- 132 m81, Endell StreetGrade II
- 134 mSwiss Protestant ChurchGrade II
- 147 m63-69, Endell StreetGrade II
Checked on 2 November 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate, Transport for London (public transport access levels, Powered by TfL Open Data, OGL v3.0, contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.
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How this decision compares
Decided in 164 days from validation, 122 days slower than Camden's median of 42 for discharge of conditions. Approved, as 99% of discharge of conditions here are.
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- 24 Jan 2025
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Selkirk House, 166 High Holborn, 1 Museum Street, 10-12 Museum Street, 35-41 New Oxford Street and 16A-18 West Central Street, London WC1A 1JR
Redevelopment of Selkirk House, 166 High Holborn and 1 Museum Street following the substantial demolition of the existing NCP car park and former Travelodge Hotel to provide a mixed-use scheme, providing office, residential, and town centre uses at ground floor level. Works of part-demolition and refurbishment to 10-12 Museum Street, 35-41 New Oxford Street, and 16A-18 West Central Street to provide further town centre ground floor uses and residential floorspace, including affordable housing provision. Provision…
- Received
- 15 Jun 2023
- Decided
- 7 Mar 2024
- Outcome
- Approved
Selkirk House 166 High Holborn 1 Museum Street 10-12 Museum Street 35-41 New Oxford Street and 16A-18 West Central Street London WC1A 1JR
Variation of Condition 2 (Approved Plans) of planning permission reference 2023/2510/P dated 07/03/24, namely: to reflect proposed changes to the ground floor and basement (levels 1 and 2) layout, including a revised servicing strategy and associated alterations to entrances; alterations to core layout at upper floors; and changes to the elevations across the upper floors of 1 Museum Street including changes to the floor levels, additional glazing to the facade, introduction of inset terraces at levels 7, 10 and…
- Received
- 25 Oct 2024
- Decided
- 6 Aug 2025
- Outcome
- Approved
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