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Campaigners have successfully applied to the Town Hall to have a landmark Holloway pub officially recognised as a beacon of the community.

The JD Wetherspoon-owned The Coronet, in Holloway Road – originally the 1940s Savoy Cinema – has been listed as an asset of community value (ACV) by Islington Council.

The application was made by Richard Lewis, a member of the Campaign for Real Ale and a key figure in the campaign to save the nearby Admiral Mann pub, closed to be redeveloped into flats in 2014.

The group regularly meets in The Coronet to plot the next move in the bid to save their former watering hole.

“The Coronet is accessible and affordable and it caters for all ages, particularly the elderly,” Mr Lewis said.

“It serves a variety of real ales, there’s plenty of space and a good place to meet.

“Wetherspoon have closed a number of pubs in north London recently and, while this one is not under threat, it does give the pub an added layer of protection and deters people from speculating on it.

“It’s quite unusual for a Wetherspoon’s to be given ACV status but Islington did not need that much persuading. It’s good that the council appreciates the value of the pub for the community.” ACV status gives additional protection from development under the Localism Act 2011.

The campaigners have not given up on their fight to reopen the Admiral Mann, off Brecknock Road, which they got listed by Camden Council.

Owner Woodham Properties has put the pub on the market, and is challenging planners’ rejection of a bid to redevelop the building into six flats.

A public inquiry will now be held where a government planning inspector will rule on whether the council was right to reject the plans.

The appeal hearing will take place from September 14 at Camden Town Hall.

Meanwhile, campaigners will be celebrating The Coronet’s listing on Sunday.

Wetherspoon spokesman Eddie Gershon said: “Wetherspoon converted what was an inactive building into The Coronet some 20 years ago. It’s a wonderful building and Wetherspoon restored and retained a lot of the original features.

“For the council to list the pub in this way is a positive thing. In some cases councils do this if a pub might be redeveloped but there's no suggestion whatsoever that Wetherspoon is going to do anything to that building for many years, other than to run it as one if its most popular pubs.”