Land north west of the Royal Mail Sorting Office, bounded by Farringdon Road, Calthorpe Street and Phoenix Place, Islington, London EC1A 1BB
Approved on 11 July 2017
Council decision: Approve with no conditionsDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Approval of Details pursuant to Condition 18 (Enabling Works Fixed Plant Noise Assessment) and partial approval of Condition 37 (Emergency Plant Noise Management) relating to the Enabling Works P2013/1423/FUL dated 30/03/2015.
- Received
- 20 March 2017
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Islington
- Ward
- Clerkenwell
- ReceivedReceived20 Mar
- ValidatedValidated6 Apr
- Consult.Consultation20 Apr
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided11 Jul
Decided in 96 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to discharge conditions at Land north west of the Royal Mail Sorting Office, bounded by Farringdon Road, Calthorpe Street and Phoenix Place, Islington, London EC1A 1BB. Islington has handled 867 applications of this type. This one was decided in 113 days, 8 weeks longer than Islington's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 5 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
- 6 April 2017
- Consultation expiry
- 20 April 2017
- Consultation end
- 20 April 2017
- Last date for comments
- 20 April 2017
- Permission expires
- 11 July 2020
Publicity
- First advertised
- 6 April 2017
Additional information
- Documents
- 6
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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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Islington
Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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