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20 St John's Square, London, EC1M 4AH

P2024/0143/ADVAdvertisement ConsentApproved

Approved on 18 April 2024

Council decision: Approve with conditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Installation of 2 no. externally illuminated fascia signs within internal courtyard

Received
17 January 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Clerkenwell
  1. Received17 Jan
  2. Validated26 Feb
  3. Consult.31 Mar
  4. Target22 Apr
  5. Decided18 Apr

Decided in 52 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an advertising consent application at 20 St John's Square, London, EC1M 4AH. Islington has handled 304 applications of this type. This one was decided in 92 days, 5 weeks longer than Islington's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 12 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 143 applications across Clerkenwell. We hold 301 applications in total for the EC1M postcode area.

83% of advertising 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
EC1M 4AH
Application type
Advertisement Consent
Development type
Not Required
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 February 2024
Consultation expiry
31 March 2024
Consultation end
31 March 2024
Last date for comments
31 March 2024
Target decision date
22 April 2024
Application expires
31 March 2024
Permission expires
18 April 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

First advertised
7 March 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
12731960
UPRN
10094612969
Documents
12

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: Clerkenwell Green
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Clerkenwell
  • 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, 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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