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81 City Road, London, EC1Y 1BD

P2025/2111/ADVAdvertisement ConsentApproved

Approved on 6 October 2025

Council decision: Approve with conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Display of 1 halo illuminated sign to front elevation.

Received
23 July 2025
Ward
Bunhill
  1. Received23 Jul
  2. Validated18 Aug
  3. Consult.20 Sep
  4. Target12 Oct
  5. Decided6 Oct

Decided in 49 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an advertising consent application at 81 City Road, London, EC1Y 1BD. Islington has handled 304 applications of this type. This one was decided in 75 days, 3 weeks longer than Islington's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 160 applications across Bunhill. We hold 398 applications in total for the EC1Y 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
EC1Y 1BD
Application type
Advertisement Consent
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 August 2025
Consultation expiry
20 September 2025
Consultation end
20 September 2025
Target decision date
12 October 2025
Application expires
29 September 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

First advertised
28 August 2025
Site notice start
28 August 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14198919_C
UPRN
10023219918
Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Bunhill Fields and Finsbury SquarePart of the site
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Bunhill Fields, Finsbury SquarePart of the 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, 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.

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© 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2025
    18 Aug

    1 No. fixed planters also submitted P2025/2111/ADV

    WithdrawnAdvertisement consentRelatedP2025/2110/FUL
  2. 2025
    23 Jul

    Display of 1 halo illuminated sign to front elevation.

    This applicationApprovedAdvertisement consentP2025/2111/ADV

Source: Islington

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