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Ground and basement floor, 70-74, City Road, Islington, London, EC1Y 2BJ

P122206Full Planning ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 9 January 2013

Council decision: Approve with conditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of the ground and basement floor level from A3/D2/D1 to sole A3 use.

Received
5 October 2012
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bunhill
  1. Received5 Oct
  2. Validated29 Nov
  3. Consult.20 Dec
  4. Target
  5. Decided9 Jan

Decided in 41 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Ground and basement floor, 70-74, City Road, Islington, London, EC1Y 2BJ. Islington has handled 1,802 applications of this type. This one was decided in 96 days, 6 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 398 applications in total for the EC1Y 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
EC1Y 2BJ
Application type
Full Planning Application
Development type
Not Used, Not Used
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 November 2012
Consultation expiry
20 December 2012
Consultation end
20 December 2012
Last date for comments
27 December 2012
Permission expires
9 January 2016

Publicity

First advertised
6 December 2012

Additional information

Documents
5

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.

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

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Source: Islington

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