Ground Floor Retail Unit International Financial Centre 25 Old Broad Street London EC2N 1HQ
Approved on 1 August 2017
Delegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Display of one internally illuminated projecting sign measuring 0.6m high by 0.6m wide at a height of 2.80m above ground floor level.
- Received
- 8 May 2017
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- City of London Corporation
- Ward
- Cornhill
- ReceivedReceived8 May
- ValidatedValidated8 May
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date3 Jul
- DecidedDecided1 Aug
Decided in 85 days (council typically 77)
About this application
This is an advertising consent application at Ground Floor Retail Unit International Financial Centre 25 Old Broad Street London EC2N 1HQ. City of London has handled 531 applications of this type. This one was decided in 85 days, 8 days longer than City of London's typical decision time. The site is in 10 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 50 applications across Cornhill. We hold 177 applications in total for the EC2N postcode area.
93% of advertising applications at City of London Corporation were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 11 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- EC2N 1HQ
- Application type
- Advertisement Consent
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Old Broad St, 18, 20, 21, 21a, 25 & 27
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 8 May 2017
- Target decision date
- 3 July 2017
- Committee meeting
- 1 August 2017
- Permission expires
- 1 August 2022
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Bidwells
- Agent address
- Attn: Mr Paul Semple Seacourt Tower West Way Oxford OX2 0JJ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.
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