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131 - 132, Upper Street, London, N1 1QP

P2025/2270/FULFull planning permissionRefused
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Refused on 29 September 2025

Approximate site (title boundary)
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This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Use as Class E

Submitted
6 August 2025
  1. Received6 Aug
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided29 Sep

Decided in 54 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application at 131 - 132, Upper Street, London, N1 1QP. Islington has handled 679 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days. The site is in a conservation area, with 9 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 4,099 applications in total for the N1 postcode area.

90% of full planning permission 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 1QP
Application type
Full planning permission

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Upper Street (North)
  • Listed building: Grade II: 133, Upper StreetOn or next to this site
  • Brownfield land register: Site 2 (Block C), Royal Mail Sorting Office, 5-6 Almeida Street and 128 & 130 Upper StreetRegister 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 (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

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    6 Aug

    Use as Class E

    This applicationRefusedFull planning permissionP2025/2270/FUL
  2. 2025
    6 Aug

    Change of use to 2x2bed 4 person apartments on second floor and 1 3bed 6 person apartment on third floor

    RefusedApplicationFiled alongsideP2025/2277/PRA

Source: Islington

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