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210 - 218 Old Street, 70-100 City Road, 32-37 Featherstone Street and 13-15 Mallow Street, Islington, London, EC1V 9UN

P101833Full Planning ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 10 October 2011

Council decision: Approve with conditions and legal agreementPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Development of the site involving demolition of the existing structures except for 70 -74 City Road (Building C) and 36-37 Featherstone Street; the change of use of the first to third floors of 36-37 Featherstone Street (Building E) from Class B1 office to Class C3 residential (3 units); the construction of four new buildings, Building A up to 90.09m high, Building B up to 40.39m high, Building D, up to 40.37m high and Building F up to 31.5m high to provide 32,625 sum of Class B1 floor space, 728 sum of mixed uses for Class A1/A2/A3/A4, creation of 6 residential units, alterations to an existing service access on Mallow Street, provision of new publicly accessible hard landscaped space and ancillary plant and equipment.

Received
16 August 2010
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Bunhill
  1. Received16 Aug
  2. Validated17 Aug
  3. Consult.30 Sep
  4. Target6 Dec
  5. Decided10 Oct

Decided in 419 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at 210 - 218 Old Street, 70-100 City Road, 32-37 Featherstone Street and 13-15 Mallow Street, Islington, London, EC1V 9UN. Islington has handled 1,802 applications of this type. This one was decided in 420 days, 52 weeks longer than Islington's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 160 applications across Bunhill. We hold 1,026 applications in total for the EC1V postcode area.

90% of full applications at London Borough of Islington were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
EC1V 9UN
Application type
Full Planning Application
Development type
Not Used
Scale / size
Large

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 August 2010
Consultation expiry
30 September 2011
Consultation end
30 September 2011
Last date for comments
7 October 2010
Target decision date
6 December 2010
Permission expires
30 March 2015

Planning decision

Statutory period
111 days

Publicity

First advertised
16 September 2010

Additional information

Documents
183

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Bunhill Fields and Finsbury SquarePart of the site
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Bunhill Fields, Finsbury SquarePart of the site
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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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Associated applications

  1. 2010
    16 Aug

    Development of the site involving demolition of the existing structures except for 70 -74 City Road (Building…

    This applicationConditionsFullP101833
  2. 2010
    16 Aug

    Conservation Area consent in connection with demolition of 210-218

    ApprovedConservation Area ConsentFiled alongsideP101834

Planning history at this site

14 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2014
    9 Jul

    Approval of details pursuant to condition 30 (elevation treatments and internal layouts) of planning…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsP2014/2782/AOD
  2. 2014
    9 Jul

    Approval of details pursuant to condition 4 (facing materials) of planning permission ref: P2014/2796/S73

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsP2014/2781/AOD
  3. 2014
    9 Jul

    Approval of details pursuant to condition 3 (Building A elevations) of planning permission ref: P2014/2796/S73

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsP2014/2788/AOD
  4. 2014
    9 Jul

    Approval of details pursuant to condition 10 (communal boiler) of planning permission ref: P2013/2704/S73

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsP2014/2793/AOD
  5. 2014
    9 Jul

    Approval of details pursuant to condition 25 (sound insulation) of planning permission ref: P2014/2796/S73

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsP2014/2791/AOD
  6. 2014
    9 Jul

    Approval of details pursuant to condition 16 (visitor cycle spaces) of planning permission ref: P2014/2796/S73

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsP2014/2792/AOD

Source: Islington

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