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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for London Borough of Islington. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
624 approved · 51 refused · 25 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 May 2025 to 1 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 4 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Units 1 & 2 Holford Yard, London, WC1X 9HF
Received 16 Jul 202615 Cross Street, London
Received 14 Sept 2026Porters Place, 11-33, St John Street, London, EC1M 4AA
Received 23 Jun 2026427 Caledonian Road, London, N7 9BG
Received 9 Jul 202632 Britton Street, London, EC1M 5NQ
Received 30 Apr 202664, King's Cross Road, London, WC1X 9QE
Received 26 Mar 202642 Aberdeen Park, London, N5 2BL
Received 6 May 202687 Sunnyside Road, London, N19 3SL
Received 7 May 202611 Brooksby Street, London, N1 1EX
Received 11 May 202624 Arlington Square, London, N1 7DP
Received 25 Feb 2026The Peasant Public House, 240 St John Street, London, EC1V 4PH
Received 30 Mar 2026Unit 1 To 3, Blenheim Court, 62 Brewery Road, London, N7 9NY
Received 25 Aug 202633 - 37 Corsica Street, London, N5 1JT
Received 19 May 2026Bartholomew Court (previously known as Redbrick Estate including Vickery Court, Bartholomew Court, Steadman Court, Community Centre at 163 Old Street, 169 - 173 Old Street, Bath Street Health Centre, Islington, London, EC1V). , Old Street , LONDON, EC1V 3
Received 24 Jun 2026Flat 1, 68 Highbury New Park, London, N5 2DJ
Received 1 Jul 2026Lift Shaft Adjacent to 213 Old Street, London, EC1V 9NR
Received 3 Jun 202686 - 88 Clerkenwell Road, London, EC1M 5RJ
Received 16 Jul 2026276 St Paul's Road, London, N1 2LH
Received 17 Jun 2026Flat A, 29 Halliford Street, London, N1 3EL
Received 21 May 202616 Ashby Street, London, EC1V 0ED
Received 9 Apr 202639 Beresford Road, London, N5 2HS
Received 22 Apr 20267-9 Lambton Road, London, N19 3QJ
Received 1 Jun 2026Flat 1, 71 Sunnyside Road, London, N19 3SL
Received 8 Jun 20265 Travers Road, London, N7 7PR
Received 25 Mar 2026Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for London Borough of Islington, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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