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Barbican House 26-34 Old Street London London EC1V 9QR

P2014/4686/ADVAdvertisement ConsentApproved

Approved on 8 January 2015

Council decision: Approve with conditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Temporary hoarding to display an externally illuminated advertisement to screen building works for a period of 12 months

Received
14 November 2014
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bunhill
  1. Received14 Nov
  2. Validated28 Nov
  3. Consult.19 Dec
  4. Target
  5. Decided8 Jan

Decided in 41 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an advertising consent application at Barbican House 26-34 Old Street London London EC1V 9QR. Islington has handled 304 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days. The site is in a conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application 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.

83% of advertising 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 9QR
Application type
Advertisement Consent
Development type
Not Used
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 November 2014
Consultation expiry
19 December 2014
Consultation end
19 December 2014
Last date for comments
22 December 2014
Permission expires
8 January 2018

Publicity

First advertised
1 December 2014

Additional information

Documents
4

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
  • Listed building: Grade II: 20-24, Old StreetOn or next to this site
  • 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 (19)

flood storage areas, 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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