Mount Pleasant Mail Centre Farringdon Road Islington LONDON EC1A 1BB
Approved on 18 May 2017
Council decision: Approve with conditionsDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
The installation of internally illuminated individual lettering as signage for the Mail Rail attraction and events space associated with The Postal Museum.
- Received
- 9 March 2017
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Islington
- Ward
- Clerkenwell
- ReceivedReceived9 Mar
- ValidatedValidated29 Mar
- Consult.Consultation19 Apr
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided18 May
Decided in 50 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an advertising consent application at Mount Pleasant Mail Centre Farringdon Road Islington LONDON EC1A 1BB. Islington has handled 304 applications of this type. This one was decided in 70 days, 2 weeks longer 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.
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
- EC1A 1BB
- Application type
- Advertisement Consent
- Development type
- Not Used
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 29 March 2017
- Consultation expiry
- 19 April 2017
- Consultation end
- 19 April 2017
- Last date for comments
- 27 April 2017
- Permission expires
- 18 May 2020
Publicity
- First advertised
- 6 April 2017
Additional information
- Documents
- 9
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.
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Planning history at this site
5 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 201923 Jan
Replacement of 12 basement windows within the basement lightwell of the south-east facade of the Mount…
ApprovedFull Planning ApplicationP2019/0279/FUL - 20177 Feb
Part approval of details pursuant to Condition 14 (Groundborne Noise) where this relates to the 'Enabling…
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsP2017/0516/AOD - 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 - 20167 Nov
Approval of details pursuant to Condition 5 (Archaeological Assessment) and part approval of details pursuant…
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsP2016/4377/AOD - 201317 May
Approval of details pursuant to Condition 4 (Cycle Parking), Condition 5 (Material Samples), & Condition 6…
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsP2013/1611/AOD
Source: Islington
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