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Restaurant, 169 Whitecross Street, London, EC1Y 8JT

P2014/3907/FULFull Planning ApplicationRefused
Full

Refused on 25 February 2015

Council decision: Refuse Permission and take enforcementDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Works to rear elevation comprising retention of one flue, recovering rear flat roof, provision of terrace, raising of rear walls to provide parapets, covering in existing rear yard, erection of one flue and refrigeration unit, erection of obscure glazed screens.

Received
26 September 2014
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bunhill
  1. Received26 Sep
  2. Validated6 Nov
  3. Consult.27 Nov
  4. Target
  5. Decided25 Feb

Decided in 111 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Restaurant, 169 Whitecross Street, London, EC1Y 8JT. Islington has handled 1,802 applications of this type. This one was decided in 152 days, 14 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 8JT
Application type
Full Planning Application
Development type
Not Used
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 November 2014
Consultation expiry
27 November 2014
Consultation end
27 November 2014
Last date for comments
4 December 2014
Committee meeting
5 February 2015

Publicity

First advertised
13 November 2014

Appeal

Appeal date
6 May 2015
Appeal result
The appeal is dismissed. 13-11-2015

Additional information

Documents
8

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: St Luke's
  • Heritage at Risk Register: St Lukes
  • 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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© 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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