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49 Rawstorne Street London EC1V 7NQ

P2014/5096/COLCertificate of Lawfulness (Existing)Refused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 4 June 2015

Council decision: Refusal of permissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness (existing) for the ground floor and basement for operations centre of Cheapside Carriage Co Ltd a chauffeur company licenced by PCO/TfL as a private hire operator.

Received
15 December 2014
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Clerkenwell
  1. Received15 Dec
  2. Validated14 May
  3. Consult.10 Apr
  4. Target
  5. Decided4 Jun

Decided in 21 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 49 Rawstorne Street London EC1V 7NQ. Islington has handled 277 applications of this type. This one was decided in 171 days, 16 weeks longer than Islington's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 143 applications across Clerkenwell. We hold 1,024 applications in total for the EC1V postcode area.

88% of amendment 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 7NQ
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness (Existing)
Development type
Not Used
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 May 2015
Last date for comments
10 April 2015

Appeal

Appeal date
21 March 2016
Appeal result
Appeal is Dismissed 27-10-2016

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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, 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, 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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Source: Islington

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