Well House, 23 A Benwell Road, London, N7 7BL
Approved on 18 October 2021
Council decision: Approve with conditionsDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Proposed reconfiguration of existing residential flats on 1st and 2nd floors to create 5no. additional flats plus window additions.
- Received
- 8 July 2021
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Islington
- Ward
- Highbury West - historic
- ReceivedReceived8 Jul
- ValidatedValidated9 Aug
- Consult.Consultation19 Sep
- TargetTarget Date4 Oct
- DecidedDecided18 Oct
Decided in 70 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for window replacement at Well House, 23 A Benwell Road, London, N7 7BL. Islington has handled 1,802 applications of this type. This one was decided in 102 days, 7 weeks longer than Islington's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 836 applications in total for the N7 postcode area.
90% of full 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
- N7 7BL
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Development type
- Car Free Development
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 9 August 2021
- Consultation expiry
- 19 September 2021
- Consultation end
- 19 September 2021
- Last date for comments
- 19 September 2021
- Target decision date
- 4 October 2021
- Application expires
- 19 September 2021
- Permission expires
- 18 October 2024
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- First advertised
- 26 August 2021
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- 8763205
- UPRN
- 5300008543
- Documents
- 25
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: St Mary Magdalene
- Brownfield land register: Ground floor, Well House, 23A Benwell RoadRegister 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 (20)
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 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.
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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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Source: Islington
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