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Land north west of the Royal Mail Sorting Office, bounded by Farringdon Road, Calthorpe Street and Phoenix Place, Islington, London EC1A 1BB

P2013/1425/CACConservation Area ConsentApproved
Listed building consent

Approved on 30 March 2015

Council decision: Approve with conditionsMayor/GLA

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

Proposal

Comprehensive redevelopment of the site following the demolition of existing building and structures to construct six new buildings ranging from 3 to 12 storeys in height to provide 38,015sqm (GIA) of residential floorspace (Class 3) 4,260 sq(GIA) of office floorspace (Class B1) 1,428 sqm(GIA) of flexible retail and community floorspace, (Class A1,A2,A3,D1 and D2) with associated energy centre, waste and storage areas, vehicle and cycle parking, hard and soft landscaping to provide public and private areas of open space, alterations to the public highway and construction of new dedicated vehicle ramp to basement level to service Royal Mail operations, construction of an acoustic roof deck over existing servicing yard and all other necessary excavation and enabling works. Also full planning application reference P2013/01423 submitted

Received
1 May 2013
Decision level
Mayor/GLA
Ward
Clerkenwell
  1. Received1 May
  2. Validated4 Jul
  3. Consult.26 Jul
  4. Target
  5. Decided30 Mar

Decided in 634 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application for demolition at Land north west of the Royal Mail Sorting Office, bounded by Farringdon Road, Calthorpe Street and Phoenix Place, Islington, London EC1A 1BB. Islington has handled 714 applications of this type. This one was decided in 698 days, 92 weeks longer than Islington's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 141 applications across Clerkenwell. We hold 438 applications in total for the EC1A postcode area.

94% of heritage 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
EC1A 1BB
Application type
Conservation Area Consent
Development type
Not Used
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 July 2013
Consultation expiry
26 July 2013
Consultation end
26 July 2013
Last date for comments
1 August 2013
Permission expires
30 March 2018

Publicity

First advertised
11 July 2013

Additional information

Documents
18

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Rosebery Avenue
  • 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 (21)

flood storage 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.

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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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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