185 Park Street, London SE1 9BL
Approved on 10 November 2014
Council decision: Observations to adjoining borough - commentsDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Demolition of existing buildings and redevelopment to provide a mixed use development providing three new buildings comprising basement, lower ground and ground floor plus part 9, 14 and 20 storeys containing 170 residential units (Class C3), Office (Class B1), Retail (Class A1/A3/A4), Cultural facility (Class D1/A1/A3/A4); provision of hard and soft landscaping and the provision of parking, servicing and plant areas.
- Received
- 3 November 2014
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Islington
- Ward
- Bunhill, Clerkenwell
- ReceivedReceived3 Nov
- ValidatedValidated5 Nov
- Consult.Consultation26 Nov
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided10 Nov
Decided in 5 days
About this application
This is a planning application for demolition at 185 Park Street, London SE1 9BL. Islington has handled 8,873 applications of this type. This one was decided in 7 days, 7 weeks quicker than Islington's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,766 applications in total for the SE1 postcode area.
Application details
- Postcode
- SE1 9BL
- Application type
- Observations to Adjoining Borough
- Development type
- Not Used
- Scale / size
- Large
- Number of dwellings
- 170
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 5 November 2014
- Consultation expiry
- 26 November 2014
- Consultation end
- 26 November 2014
- Last date for comments
- 26 November 2014
- Permission expires
- 7 February 2020
Publicity
- First advertised
- 5 November 2014
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Bunhill Fields and Finsbury Square
- 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.
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Source: Islington
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