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Quashed On Legal Grounds6 January 20253334740

31 - 39 Argyle Street, London, WC1H 8EP

Planning appeal 3334740 at 31 - 39 Argyle Street, London, WC1H 8EP (London Borough of Camden) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 6 January 2025 by Inspector Hand S, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The main issues concern the cleaning and repointing of the upper floors of Nos 31-39 and the dying of the red brick round head recess at first floor and the flat arches on the first and second floors and the rendering of the ground floor, all at No 39.

Retention of cleaning and repointing of brickwork, red dying of window recesses/arches, and rendering of ground floor brickwork at Nos 31-39 Argyle Street, undertaken without listed building consent

Authority
London Borough of Camden
Appeal type
enforcement · Appeal against Enforcement Listed Building Notice/Enforcement Conservation Area Notice
Procedure
Hearing
Development
other · Other minor developments
Inspector
Hand S
Postcode
WC1H 8EP

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • The main issues concern the cleaning and repointing of the upper floors of Nos 31-39 and the dying of the red brick round head recess at first floor and the flat arches on the first and second floors and the rendering of the ground floor, all at No 39

What decided it

The finding that reversing the unauthorised render and red dye would risk causing greater harm to the historic brickwork than the less-than-substantial harm caused by leaving them in place.

The less than substantial harm caused by the render and red dye at No 39 was outweighed by the public benefit of avoiding the risk of further damage from attempting to reverse the works

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