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bus shelter outside Montcalm Royal London House, Finsbury Square, EC2A 1DX

P2026/0293/ADVAdvertisement ConsentApproved

Approved on 7 April 2026

Council decision: Approve with conditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Internal Illuminated Sequential Advertisement Capable Of Static And Dynamic Content Display With Automatic Rotation of Images

Received
4 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bunhill
  1. Received4 Feb
  2. Validated4 Feb
  3. Consult.2 Apr
  4. Target31 Mar
  5. Decided7 Apr

Decided in 62 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an advertising consent application at bus shelter outside Montcalm Royal London House, Finsbury Square, EC2A 1DX. Islington has handled 304 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 6 days longer than Islington's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 160 applications across Bunhill. We hold 1,205 applications in total for the EC2A 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
EC2A 1DX
Application type
Advertisement Consent
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 February 2026
Consultation expiry
2 April 2026
Consultation end
2 April 2026
Target decision date
31 March 2026
Application expires
31 March 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

First advertised
10 March 2026
Site notice start
10 March 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14678346
UPRN
10008979777
Documents
7

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: Bunhill Fields and Finsbury Square
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Bunhill Fields, Finsbury Square
  • 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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