Schedule 1: Housing Development - Islington Council

Schedule 13: Areas of Opportunity
The following areas of opportunity identified in the 1994 UDP have been implemented,
or abandoned: AO1, AO2, AO3, AO5, AO8, AO9, AO10, AO12, AO13, AO14, AO18,
AO19, AO20, AO21, AO23, AO24, AO25, AO26, AO27 and AO29.
Areas of Opportunity Carried Forward from 1994 UDP
Ref Name Address / Description Progress and other information
AO 4 Eden Grove Vacant sites and surplus railway land
at:
Eden Grove: 20-24, r/o 26-46, 60 and
land at rear;
Piper Close: land to north and east and
site of Caledonian Road Bingo Hall
Boundary of AO revised from 1994 plan.
Draft planning brief agreed Dec 97, but
now superseded, as site is to be developed
for a mixed use scheme including a waste
and recycling centre. This forms part of
the current proposals by Arsenal FC for a
AO 6
AO 7
AO11
(a)
AO11
(b)
Highbury and
Islington Station
St. William of
York School
King’s Cross
King’s Cross
AO15 Torrens Street /
Angel Station
Highbury Corner: 1-5 (Station and
Post Office);
Highbury and Islington Station and
railway land at rear;
Highbury Station Road: 2-4 and railway
land at rear;
Upper Street: 259
Freeling Street: roadway and adjacent
school site;
Gifford Street: St. William of York
school site;
Pembroke Street: west side (Gifford
Street to Freeling Street)
Land to east of York Way, west of
Caledonian Road/Balfe Street, north of
Pentonville Road and south of
Wharfdale Road
Block including Omega Place, between
Caledonian Road; Pentonville Road,
Northdown Street and Keystone
Crescent
Former station and adjoining land at
City Road: Angel Station;
Torrens Street: 1-7
AO16 City Road Basin City Garden Row: all of east side;
City Road: 259-269;
City Road Basin;
Graham Street: 29-65 and all of east
side;
Wharf Road: all of west side
new stadium at Ashburton Grove.
Revised planning brief July 2001. Forms
part of the wider Highbury Corner Special
Policy Area for which an urban design
framework was prepared in 1997.
Planning brief agreed Sept 1992. School
demolished in 2000. Planning permission
subsequently given on appeal for a
residential development.
Boundary of AO revised from 1994 plan.
Planning briefs agreed July 1998. Planning
permission given in Dec 2001 for a mixed
use development covering most of the AO,
which is now under construction. Planning
brief for Courtyard Theatre site approved
Oct 2002.
Boundary of AO revised from 1994 plan.
Planning brief agreed June 1999. Planning
application approved for part of the site.
Planning brief agreed Jan 1998. Forms
part of the Angel Town Centre.
Boundary of AO revised from 1994 plan.
Planning brief for 261 City Road agreed in
June 2001. A draft strategy for the wider
City Road Basin area was deferred.
Masterplan for whole area to be prepared
jointly with BWB and other development
partners.