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Royal Mail House, 148 Old Street, London, EC1V 9BJ

P2014/4519/FULFull Planning ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 11 September 2015

Council decision: Approve with conditions and legal agreementPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Re-cladding of elevations to Old Street, Bunhill Row and Banner Street, 6th floor extension to Old Street and Bunhill Row, 7th and 8th floor extensions to Old Street to provide additional office floorspace (Use Class B1), creation of new building entrance via Bunhill Row, change of use of the ground floor fronting Old Street to provide flexible retail/restaurant (Use Class A1/A3) units, and associated works. The total floorspace to be created by the proposal is 4271sqm (GEA).

Received
3 November 2014
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Bunhill
  1. Received3 Nov
  2. Validated20 Nov
  3. Consult.12 Dec
  4. Target
  5. Decided11 Sep

Decided in 295 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Royal Mail House, 148 Old Street, London, EC1V 9BJ. Islington has handled 1,802 applications of this type. This one was decided in 312 days, 37 weeks longer than Islington's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 160 applications across Bunhill. We hold 1,024 applications in total for the EC1V 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
EC1V 9BJ
Application type
Full Planning Application
Development type
Not Used
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 November 2014
Consultation expiry
12 December 2014
Consultation end
12 December 2014
Last date for comments
18 December 2014
Committee meeting
24 March 2015
Permission expires
11 September 2018

Publicity

First advertised
27 November 2014

Additional information

Documents
23

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: 5th and 6th floor, 16-26 Banner StreetRegister site at or near this address · +1 more
  • 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, conservation 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 and heritage coasts.

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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