- Decision
- allowed, 15 September 2026
- Decided by
- Planning Inspector: M Cryan
- Authority
- Islington (London)
- Appeal reference
- 6007796
- Application reference
- P2025/3510/FUL
- Procedure
- written representations
- Development
- Replacement of BT kiosk with Street Hub 3 unit with two 75-inch digital advert screens (Appeal B 6007794 advert consent P2025/3511/ADV, also allowed, 5 years)
- Site context
- inside settlement
- Green Belt
- No
- Framework applied
- No Framework version cited
- Determinative policies
- s38(6)
- Development plan policies
- Islington Local Plan SDMP 2023 PLAN1, DH6, ST3, T4, London Plan 2021 D3, D4, T2
- Main issues
- character and appearance; visual amenity
Summary
A BT Street Hub with digital advert screens replacing a kiosk on Old Street, Islington. Both the planning and advert consent appeals were allowed. The wide footway, trees and commercial main-road setting absorb the unit and its screens. Earlier refusals of new kiosks on the open opposite footway were distinguished. The Framework is mentioned only in relation to conditions.
What made the difference
Context: a wide, cluttered, commercial footway versus the low-scale green local centre in PINS-6002960. Removing a "sacrificial" kiosk elsewhere does not count locally (DL ¶13).
Policy findings
Policy codes are those of the National Planning Policy Framework (August 2026) unless a development plan is named.
| Policy | Finding | Weight | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| DH6 / PLAN1 (Islington SDMP) | accord | slim dark unit on a very wide footway broken up by trees and street furniture; busy commercial main road, no harmful concentration of digital adverts (DL 8-11); CO1 not cited | |
| DM6 | neutral | luminance limited to 600 cd/m2 dusk to dawn, 10-second minimum display; 10-year advert consent refused as unjustified (DL 14-17); code mapped by harvester |
Key facts
- Replaces an existing kiosk on the same spot; two earlier new-kiosk appeals opposite were dismissed (2019) on a more open footway (DL 10)
- "Sacrificial" second kiosk several hundred metres away gives no local decluttering benefit (DL 13)
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Sources
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