Ridgmount Street development pulled from meeting for consultation to be reopened

Plans for a major redevelopment of a site at 7 Ridgmount Street were due to be decided at a Camden planning committee last month but were pulled from the agenda and the public consultation re-opened.

Sebra Ridgmount Ltd were getting all excited as officers had recommended for approval plans by architects Fiala+Nemec’s to extend the existing five-storey building upwards, and infill to create new office space, retail, and add roof terraces to provide amenity space for office workers.

However, a number of local residents had objected to the plans during the public consultation and raised concerns about the additional height, the roof terraces, as well as the servicing of the building.

At the planning committee which was due to make a decision on 29 January, committee chair Cllr Heather Johnson announced that “following advice from officers” the application will be withdrawn as a representation had been received saying that the description of the application did not reflect the true nature of the upward extension of the building proposed.

“Officers intend to amend the description to avoid any ambiguity and to re-consult on [the application]”, said Johnson.

Comments on the application are open until 1 March 2026 and the application will come before a planning committee later this year.

The existing building was originally constructed in 1965 to designs by Richard Gilbert Scott of the firm Sir Giles Scott, Son and Partner. The main section along Store Street housed the National Central Library and the Library Association occupied the eastern end of the site.

In 1991 what is now the University of Law moved into the larger Store Street part. The Institute for Fiscal Studies, until recently, had offices in part of the Ridgmount Street wing.

Planning application: 2025/3920/P, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE. Refurbishment, partial demolition and extension works to existing building to provide additional office and retail floorspace (Class E), comprising demolition of existing fourth floor level, extensions at fourth, fifth and sixth floor level, installation of plant above sixth floor, infill of existing car parking spaces, rationalisation of existing office floorplates, basement extension, alterations to existing street facades, new landscaped roof terraces/balconies, new cycle parking, and public realm improvements and other associated works.

Update, 12 April 2026. The application was approved, subject to certain conditions, at a planning committee on 26 February 2026.

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