The Brunswick Centre, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1BS

described on the application form as: “Class E”

Authority: London Borough of Camden
Appeal type: ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
Procedure: Hearing
Development: retail · Change of use
Inspector: Perkins L

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

If the Council had refused the application, whether the refusal would have been well-founded or not

What decided it

The appellant failed to demonstrate, on the balance of probability, a precise and unambiguous description of the existing use and land, and failed to show that Condition 3 of the 2003 permission no longer restricted the site's use.

Plan policies cited: Policy SH1, Policy SH2

Judgments cited: Lambeth LCB v Secretary of State for Housing Communities and Local Government [2019] UKSC 33; Trump International Golf Club Scotland Ltd v Scottish Ministers [2015] UKSC 74; R (Parkview Homes Limited) v Chichester DC [2021] EWHC 59; UBB Waste Essex Ltd v Essex CC [2019] EWHC 1924; Dunnett Investments v SSCLG [2017] EWCA Civ 192; R (Royal London Mutual Insurance Society) v SSCLG [2013] EWHC 3597

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