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Town Hall, Upper Street, London, N1 2UD

P2023/3302/LBCListed Building (Council's Own)Approved
Listed building consent

Approved on 19 January 2024

Council decision: Approve with conditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

The proposed works are confined to the lower ground floor (basement) only and are internal in nature. Works largely comprise decorations to existing finishes in conjunction with the installation of new internal partitions. The most intrusive works involve the breaking through of an existing masonry wall to provide a new access point into an existing centralised corridor.

Received
15 November 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Mary's & St James'
  1. Received15 Nov
  2. Validated19 Dec
  3. Consult.2 Feb
  4. Target13 Feb
  5. Decided19 Jan

Decided in 31 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Town Hall, Upper Street, London, N1 2UD. Islington has handled 714 applications of this type. This one was decided in 65 days, 9 days longer than Islington's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 93 applications across St Mary's & St James'. We hold 4,099 applications in total for the N1 postcode area.

94% of heritage 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
N1 2UD
Application type
Listed Building (Council's Own)
Development type
Not Required
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 December 2023
Consultation expiry
2 February 2024
Consultation end
2 February 2024
Last date for comments
2 February 2024
Target decision date
13 February 2024
Application expires
2 February 2024
Permission expires
19 January 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

First advertised
10 January 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
12598825
UPRN
10093622484
Documents
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Upper Street (North)
  • Listed building: Grade II: Islington Town HallOn or next to this site
  • 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, 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.

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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