Islington Local Plan Bunhill and Clerkenwell area action plan September 2019 COMMUNITY CENTRE Islington Council Local Plan: Bunhill and Clerkenwell Area Action Plan - Regulation 19 draft, September 2019 For more information about this document, please contact: Islington Planning Policy Team Telephone: 020 7527 2720/6799 Email: [email protected] 1 Bunhill and Clerkenwell in context ............................................................................. 1 Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 1 Strategic and non-strategic policies and site allocations .................................................... 4 Area profile ........................................................................................................................ 7 Demographics ................................................................................................................... 8 Planning context .............................................................................................................. 12 Challenges ...................................................................................................................... 13 2 Area-wide policies ..................................................................................................... 18 Policy BC1: Prioritising office use .................................................................................... 18 Policy BC2: Culture, retail and leisure uses ..................................................................... 20 3 Area Spatial Strategies .............................................................................................. 25 Policy BC3: City Fringe Opportunity Area ........................................................................ 26 Policy BC4: City Road ..................................................................................................... 32 Policy BC5: Farringdon .................................................................................................... 36 Policy BC6: Mount Pleasant and Exmouth Market ........................................................... 40 Policy BC7: Central Finsbury ........................................................................................... 43 Policy BC8: Historic Clerkenwell ...................................................................................... 47 4 Site Allocations .......................................................................................................... 52 Policy AAP1: Delivering development priorities ............................................................... 52 The sites .......................................................................................................................... 52 Site capacity assumptions ............................................................................................... 56 BC1: City Barbican Thistle Hotel, Central Street .............................................................. 58 BC2: City Forum, 250 City Road ...................................................................................... 59 BC3: Islington Boat Club, 16-34 Graham Street .............................................................. 61 BC4: Finsbury Leisure Centre ......................................................................................... 63 BC5: London College of Fashion, Golden Lane ............................................................... 65 BC6: Redbrick Estate: Vibast Centre, garages and car park, Old Street .......................... 66 BC7: 198-208 Old Street (petrol station) .......................................................................... 67 BC8: Old Street roundabout area .................................................................................... 69 BC9: Inmarsat, 99 City Road ........................................................................................... 71 BC10: 254-262 Old Street (east of roundabout) ............................................................... 73 BC11: Longbow House, 14-20 Chiswell Street ................................................................ 75 BC12: Cass Business School, 106 Bunhill Row ............................................................... 77 BC13: Car park at 11 Shire House, Whitbread Centre, Lamb's Passage ......................... 78 BC14: Peabody Whitecross Estate, Roscoe Street .......................................................... 80 BC15: Richard Cloudesley School, 99 Golden Lane ........................................................ 82 BC16: 36-43 Great Sutton Street (Berry Street) ............................................................... 83 BC17: Caxton House, 2 Farringdon Road ....................................................................... 85 BC18: Cardinal Tower, 2A, 4-12 Farringdon Road and 48-50 Cowcross Street ............... 86 BC19: Farringdon Place, 20 Farringdon Road ................................................................. 88 BC20: 50 Farringdon Road .............................................................................................. 90 BC21: 2, 4-10 Clerkenwell Road, 29-39 Goswell Road & 1-4 Great Sutton Street ........... 91 BC22: Vine Street Bridge................................................................................................. 92 BC23: Sycamore House, 5 Sycamore Street ................................................................... 93 BC24: Clerkenwell Fire Station, 42-44 Rosebery Avenue ................................................ 94 BC25: Land adjacent to the Mount Pleasant Sorting Office ............................................. 96 BC26: 68-86 Farringdon Road (NCP carpark) ................................................................. 98 BC27: Finsbury Health Centre and the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering ................ 100 BC28: Angel Gate, Goswell Road .................................................................................. 102 BC29: Taylor House, 88 Rosebery Avenue ................................................................... 103 BC30: Telfer House, 27 Lever Street ............................................................................. 104 BC31: Travis Perkins, 7 Garrett Street ........................................................................... 105 BC32: Monmouth House, 58-64 City Road .................................................................... 106 BC33: Oliver House, 51-53 City Road ........................................................................... 107 BC34: 20 Ropemaker Street, 101-117 Finsbury Pavement, 10-12 Finsbury Street ....... 108 BC35: Finsbury Tower, 103-105 Bunhill Row ................................................................ 109 BC36: London Metropolitan Archives and Finsbury Business Centre ............................ 111 BC37: Triangle Estate, Goswell Road/Compton Street/Cyrus Street ............................. 113 BC38: Moorfields Eye Hospital ...................................................................................... 114 BC39: Laser House, 132-140 Goswell Road ................................................................. 117 BC40: The Pentagon, 48 Chiswell Street ....................................................................... 118 BC41: Central Foundation School, 15 Cowper Street, 63-67 Tabernacle Street and 19 & 21-23 Leonard Street ..................................................................................................... 119 BC42: Site of electricity substation opposite 15-27 Gee Street and car park spaces at 90- 98 Goswell Road ........................................................................................................... 120 BC43: easyHotel, 80-86 Old Street ................................................................................ 121 BC44: Crown House, 108 Aldersgate Street .................................................................. 122 BC45: 27 Goswell Road ................................................................................................ 123 BC46: City, University of London, 10 Northampton Square ........................................... 124 BC47: Braithwaite House and Quaker Court, Bunhill Row ............................................. 125 BC48: Castle House, 37-45 Paul Street; and Fitzroy House, 13-17 Epworth Street and 1- 15 Clere street ............................................................................................................... 126 BC49: Building adjacent to railway lines and opposite 18-20 Farringdon Lane .............. 127 BC50: Queen Mary University, Charterhouse Square Campus ..................................... 128 BC51: Italia Conti School, 23 Goswell Road .................................................................. 130 5 Monitoring ................................................................................................................ 131 6 Appendices .............................................................................................................. 132 Appendix 1: Heritage assets in Historic Clerkenwell ...................................................... 132 Appendix 2: Policies superseded by Local Plan – Bunhill and Clerkenwell Area Action Plan ...................................................................................................................................... 137 Appendix 3: Glossary and abbreviations .......................................................................