Islington Council Complaints Up 52%: £1.1m Paid Out

Islington is small, dense and almost entirely built. That shapes what local news here actually is. Very little happens without a planning decision, parking is controlled street by street, and a licensing application on Upper Street or in Clerkenwell is argued over properly because there is nowhere for the noise to go.

This site covers the whole borough: Angel and Upper Street, Barnsbury, Canonbury, Highbury, Holloway, Tufnell Park, Archway, Finsbury Park, Pentonville and Clerkenwell. Islington Council publishes the registers and papers behind all of those decisions. We read them and report what they say, with a link to the document on every fact.

Where to start

• Islington house prices: the average is £669,879 and falling, and flats are down 7% in a year. Area by area, from Land Registry data.
• Tube and train times: all 15 stations, their zones, the 2026 fares, and the two zone 1 stops with no Night Tube.
• Roads and roadworks: Highbury Grove is shut until 2 November, plus the low traffic neighbourhoods and emission streets that catch drivers out.
• Things to do in Islington: fourteen days out with prices, eight of them free.
• Planning news: a 775-homes-a-year target, 83% delivered, and the two schemes changing Holloway and City Road.

Nothing here is guesswork. Every figure links to its source.