Mount Pleasant Mail Centre Farringdon Road Islington LONDON EC1A 1BB
Approved on 17 March 2017
Council decision: Approve with no conditionsDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Part approval of details pursuant to Condition 14 (Groundborne Noise) where this relates to the 'Enabling Works' phase of planning permission ref: P2013/1423/FUL (Islington Site) dated 30 March 2015.
- Received
- 7 February 2017
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Islington
- Ward
- Clerkenwell
- ReceivedReceived7 Feb
- ValidatedValidated22 Feb
- Consult.Consultation8 Mar
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided17 Mar
Decided in 23 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to discharge conditions at Mount Pleasant Mail Centre Farringdon Road Islington LONDON EC1A 1BB. Islington has handled 867 applications of this type. This one was decided in 38 days, 3 weeks quicker than Islington's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 141 applications across Clerkenwell. We hold 438 applications in total for the EC1A postcode area.
98% of conditions 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
- EC1A 1BB
- Application type
- Approval of Details
- Development type
- Not Used
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 22 February 2017
- Consultation expiry
- 8 March 2017
- Consultation end
- 8 March 2017
- Last date for comments
- 8 March 2017
- Permission expires
- 17 March 2020
Publicity
- First advertised
- 22 February 2017
Additional information
- Documents
- 5
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Rosebery Avenue
- 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, 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, 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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© 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.
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Planning history at this site
4 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 201923 Jan
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ApprovedAdvertisement consentP2017/1026/ADV - 201621 Dec
Replacement of 6 basement windows within the lightwell of the south-east facade of the Mount Pleasant Mail…
ApprovedFull Planning ApplicationP2016/5046/FUL - 201317 May
Approval of details pursuant to Condition 4 (Cycle Parking), Condition 5 (Material Samples), & Condition 6…
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Source: Islington
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