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210-218 Old Street, 70-100 City Road, 32-37 Featherstone Street & 13-15 Mallow Street, EC1

P2014/2796/S73Removal/Variation of Condition (Section 73)Approved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 10 October 2014

Council decision: Approve with conditions and legal agreementDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

Variation of condition 2 (approved drawings) of P2013/2704/S73, dated 28 March 2014 (amendments of P101833 dated 30 March 2012 that granted the '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 92.75m high, Building B up to 41.575 high, Building D, up to 41.575m high and Building F up to 31.5m high to provide 36,824 sqm of Class B1 floor space, 640 sqm 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'). The amendments sought include (summary): A) refinement of detailed design and appearance of elevations, removal of kitchen extract ducts to north eastern crease and relocation of extract ducts to behind north facade cladding, change to alignment and increase in height of screen (Building A); B) reconfiguration of reception and internalisation of vertical circulation core (Building's B, C & D); C) sedum canopy on north facade at level one (Building D); D) reconfiguration of pv panels and green/brown roofs (Building's B, C & E); F) increase height of roof following reconfiguration of roof pitch (Building F); G) repositioning of windows and balconies and ground floor openings (Building's B, C, D, E & F).

Received
8 July 2014
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bunhill
  1. Received8 Jul
  2. Validated18 Jul
  3. Consult.12 Aug
  4. Target
  5. Decided10 Oct

Decided in 84 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at 210-218 Old Street, 70-100 City Road, 32-37 Featherstone Street & 13-15 Mallow Street, EC1. Islington has handled 867 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 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 160 applications across Bunhill.

98% of conditions 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

Application type
Removal/Variation of Condition (Section 73)
Development type
Not Used
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 July 2014
Consultation expiry
12 August 2014
Consultation end
12 August 2014
Last date for comments
14 August 2014
Permission expires
10 October 2017

Publicity

First advertised
24 July 2014

Additional information

Documents
20

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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