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Land north west of the Royal Mail Sorting Office, Farringdon Road, Islington, London, EC1A 1BB

P2023/1100/AODApproval of DetailsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 14 November 2023

Council decision: Approve with no conditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Partial Approval of Details Pursuant of Condition 19 (materials) of Planning permission reference P2021/1479/S73, dated 31/05/2022 insofar as it relates to parts A-H of Condition 19 and Blocks H and J of Phase 4.

Received
14 April 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Clerkenwell
  1. Received14 Apr
  2. Validated14 Apr
  3. Consult.12 May
  4. Target9 Jun
  5. Decided14 Nov

Decided in 214 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at Land north west of the Royal Mail Sorting Office, Farringdon Road, Islington, London, EC1A 1BB. Islington has handled 867 applications of this type. This one was decided in 214 days, 23 weeks longer than Islington's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 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 Required
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 April 2023
Consultation expiry
12 May 2023
Consultation end
12 May 2023
Last date for comments
12 May 2023
Target decision date
9 June 2023
Application expires
12 May 2023
Permission expires
14 November 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

First advertised
28 April 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
12043585
UPRN
10094612182
Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Rosebery Avenue
  • Listed building: Grade II: Postal Workers' War MemorialOn this site · +2 more
  • Brownfield land register: Calthorpe St development, Land north west of the Royal Mail Sorting Office, Farringdon Ro…Register site at or near this address · +3 more
  • 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 (19)

flood storage areas, 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

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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.

© 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

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