Basement Vaults Below, 2 & 3 Kingsway Place, & 5 - 56 Kingsway Place, Islington, London, EC1R 0LS
Proposal
Listed Building Consent in connection with change of use to office space, alterations to courtyard elevational treatment and installation of 3 additional de-humidifier units. (Parallel Planning Application also submitted P062261)
- Received
- 2 October 2006
- Decided
- 15 February 2007 · Approve with conditions
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Council
- London Borough of Islington
- Ward
- Clerkenwell
- ReceivedSubmitted2 Oct
- ValidatedValidated23 Nov
- Consult.Consultation10 Jan
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided15 Feb
Decided in 84 days (council typically 56)
This is a heritage application for a change of use at Basement Vaults Below, 2 & 3 Kingsway Place, & 5 - 56 Kingsway Place, Islington, London, EC1R 0LS. Islington has handled 702 applications of this type and approves 88% of them, typically deciding them in 68 days. This one was decided in 136 days, 10 weeks longer than Islington's median. The site is in a conservation area, with 15 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 144 applications across Clerkenwell. We hold 706 applications in total for the EC1R postcode area.
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Associated applications
- 20062 Oct
Change of use to office space, alterations to courtyard elevational treatment and installation of 3…
ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongsideP062261 - 20062 Oct
Listed Building Consent in connection with change of use to office space, alterations to courtyard…
This applicationApprovedListed building consentP062262
Planning constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Clerkenwell Green
- Listed building: Grade II: Former Cookery and Laundry Building, Kingsway College Clerkenwell CentreOn or next to this site
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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Also checked, none recorded (19)
flood storage areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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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