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Basement, 138-140 Old Street, London, EC1V 9BJ

P2021/1732/COLPCertificate of Lawfulness (Proposed)Refused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 9 August 2021

Council decision: Refusal of permissionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness (Proposed) for a Data Centre (B8) to include the fitting out of the basement with data centre machinery

Received
14 June 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bunhill
  1. Received14 Jun
  2. Validated14 Jun
  3. Consult.21 Jul
  4. Target9 Aug
  5. Decided9 Aug

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Basement, 138-140 Old Street, London, EC1V 9BJ. Islington has handled 155 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

77% of outline 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 9BJ
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness (Proposed)
Development type
Not Required
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 June 2021
Consultation expiry
21 July 2021
Consultation end
21 July 2021
Last date for comments
21 July 2021
Target decision date
9 August 2021
Application expires
21 July 2021

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

First advertised
6 July 2021

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
9939592
UPRN
5300069637
Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Brownfield land register: Redbrick Estate, 163, 169 - 173 Old StreetRegister site at or near this address
  • 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, conservation 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 and heritage coasts.

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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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

Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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