# Old Street opposite No 142, Islington (BT Street Hub)

- **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
- **Tags:** tier-2, telecoms, bt-street-hub, limited-nppf-engagement

## 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
- **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)

## Sources
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/comment-planning-appeal/appeals/6007796
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/published-document/3e6422dd-45aa-4a81-ba36-de9d32791b49

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