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Third Floor, 20, Bowling Green Lane, Islington, London, EC1R 0BD

P111020Certificate of Lawfulness (Existing)Approved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 15 August 2011

Council decision: Approve with no conditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Certificate of Lawful Development for existing use the third floor of the building as a 1 bed self contained flat.

Received
13 May 2011
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Clerkenwell
  1. Received13 May
  2. Validated20 Jun
  3. Consult.14 Jul
  4. Target
  5. Decided15 Aug

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Third Floor, 20, Bowling Green Lane, Islington, London, EC1R 0BD. Islington has handled 277 applications of this type. This one was decided in 94 days, 5 weeks longer than Islington's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 143 applications across Clerkenwell. We hold 716 applications in total for the EC1R postcode area.

88% of amendment 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
EC1R 0BD
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness (Existing)
Development type
Not Used
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 June 2011
Last date for comments
14 July 2011
Permission expires
15 August 2014

Additional information

Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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 (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.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Islington

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