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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
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Camden planning applications
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of London Borough of Camden. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Camden website
Collected application statistics
Collected records · All available dates74,053Searchable applications
1,108Recorded as pending
90%Approval rate · 52,065 approved or refused records
5,071Refused applications
46,994 approved · 5,071 refused · 5,494 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Jan 2010 to 3 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 5 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Local planning information
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Conservation areas and Article 4 directions
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Conservation areas40 mapped area records
Article 4 direction areas21 mapped area records0 identified HMO area records; remaining records unclassified
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- Final Decision2024/5373/T
FRONT GARDEN: 1 x Lime (T1) - Reduce height by no more than 2.5m & lateral spread by no more than 1m. Remove all defective branch wood. 1 x Lime (T2) - Reduce height by no more than 1m & lateral spread by no more than 1m. Remove all defective branch wood. 1 x Sycamore (T3) - Reduce height by 1.5m and reshape. 1 x Lime (T4) - Reduce height by 1.5m and reshape.
145 Abbey Road London NW6 4SS
Received 4 Dec 2024 - Final Decision2024/5372/T
DD 5 Day Notice OUTSIDE FRONT: 1 x Lime (T1) - Pollard at approx. 4m.
82 Hillway London N6 6DP
Received 2 Dec 2024 - Final Decision2024/5374/P
Details to discharge Condition 39 (Circular Economy Statement) of planning reference 2023/2510/P dated 07/03/24 for redevelopment of Selkirk House, 166 High Holborn and 1 Museum Street following the substantial demolition of the existing NCP car park and former Travelodge Hotel to provide a mixed-use scheme, providing office, residential, and town centre uses at ground floor level. Works of part-demolition and refurbishment to 10-12 Museum Street, 35-41 New Oxford Street, and 16A-18 West Central Street to provide further town centre ground floor uses and residential floorspace, including affordable housing provision. Provision of new public realm including a new pedestrian route through the site to link West Central Street with High Holborn. Relocation of cycle hire docking stations on High Holborn.
1 Museum Street London WC1A 1JR
Received 2 Dec 2024 - Final Decision2024/5376/P
Internal alterations and refurbishment to upper flat, including addition of a mezzanine to rear studio and replacement of rear roof structure, installation of an air source heat pump and solar panels to facilitate the ongoing use of the property as a family dwelling (C3)
Upper Flat 28 Charlotte Street London W1T 2NF
Received 5 Dec 2024 - Final Decision2024/5378/T
DD 5 Day Notice REAR GARDEN: 1 x Lime (T1) - Fell to ground level.
252A Camden Road London NW1 9HE
Received 2 Dec 2024 - Final Decision2024/5379/P
Erection of replacement roof extension; alterations to and extension of existing roof terrace; extension and alteration of lower roof including new plant and acoustic plant enclosure; alterations to front steps and installation of new access ramp; alterations to lower ground floor at front elevation; alterations to rear elevation at ground floor.
20-23 Lincoln's Inn Fields London WC2A 3ED
Received 3 Dec 2024 - Final Decision2024/5380/T
(TPO REF: C295-T1) REAR GARDEN: 1 x Willow (T1) - Pollard to the historic pollard/reduction points at 8m above ground level.
17 - 29 Hawley Crescent London NW1 8TT
Received 3 Dec 2024 - Final Decision2024/5381/P
The retention of x3 external air conditioning units to the rear and side of the existing dwelling house
12 Grange Gardens London NW3 7XG
Received 13 Dec 2024 - Final Decision2024/5382/P
Change of use of ground floor front office (Class E) unit to residential (Class C3) for the provision of two self-contained residential units.
5-6 Underhill Street London NW1 7HS
Received 4 Dec 2024 - Final Decision2024/5383/P
Request for scoping opinion under Paragraph 4, Regulation 15 of the Town and Country Planning Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Regulations 2017, for proposed development involving delivering up to 460 homes on the former Bacton Low Rise Estate.
Bacton Low Rise Estate Haverstock Road London NW5 4PU
Received 2 Dec 2024 - Final Decision2024/5385/P
Creation of a rear roof terrace at first floor level, together with the replacement of a window with a door, and the installation of a balustrade and privacy screen.
Flat A 47 Howitt Road London NW3 4LU
Received 3 Dec 2024 - Final Decision2024/5386/T
REAR GARDEN: 1 x Goat Willow (T1) - Crown reduction 1m - 2m. 1 x Birch (T2) - Crown reduction 1m - 2m.
38A St. Alban's Road London NW5 1RD
Received 3 Dec 2024 - Final Decision2024/5387/P
Replacement of rear ground floor extension; replacement of existing rear and side windows and doors; and associated alterations.
16 Pilgrim's Lane London NW3 1SN
Received 5 Dec 2024 - Final Decision2024/5388/P
Change of use from office (Class E) to residential (Class C3) at first and second floor level.
2 Belsize Crescent London NW3 5QU
Received 20 Mar 2025 - Final Decision2024/5389/P
Erection of an additional storey to dwellinghouse.
47 Ornan Road London NW3 4QD
Received 6 Dec 2024 - Final Decision2024/5390/P
Non-material amendment to planning permission 2023/0228/P dated 17/01/2023 for 'Installation of 4no. condenser units on the existing rear first floor roof terrace [retrospective] ' namely amendments to condition 3 wording regarding condenser units background noise level.
Atlantic House 128 Albert Street London NW1 7NE
Received 4 Dec 2024 - Final Decision2024/5391/P
Demolition of existing extension and erection of a single storey rear extension; raising of rear party walls at roof and ground level; replacement of rear first floor window; and installation of timber enclosure in front garden.
16 Pandora Road London NW6 1TT
Received 7 Jan 2025 - Final Decision2024/5393/T
DD 5 Day Notice REAR GARDEN: 1 x Hawthorn (T1) - Fell to ground level.
44 Downshire Hill London NW3 1NU
Received 3 Dec 2024 - Final Decision2024/5394/P
Details of lighting strategy (exterior) to partially discharge condition 35 of planning permission 2022/1515/P dated 20/02/2023 which varied 2020/3881/P dated 01/11/2021 for the Redevelopment of Belgrove House as a part 5 part 10 storey building plus 2 basement levels for use as office and research and laboratory floorspace; with café, flexible retail and office floorspace at ground floor; an auditorium at basement; incorporating step free entrance to Kings Cross Underground station in place of two entrance boxes along Euston Road; together with terraces at fourth and fifth floor levels, servicing, cycle storage and facilities, refuse storage and other ancillary and associated works.
Belgrove House Belgrove Street London WC1H 8AA
Received 4 Dec 2024 - Final Decision2024/5395/T
REAR GARDEN: 4 x Limes (T1 - T4) - Crown reduce all new horizontal and vertical growth back to the previous reduction points to continue pleached form (approx. 1m height and 1m spread).
27 Church Row London NW3 6UP
Received 3 Dec 2024 - Final Decision2024/5396/T
FRONT GARDEN: 1 x Pussy Willow (T1) - Reduce by 20%, 1.5m. 1 x Oak (T2) - Reduce by 20%, 1.5m.
Studio House Hampstead Hill Gardens London NW3 2PH
Received 5 Dec 2024 - Final Decision2024/5398/P
Installation of Santander Cycle docking station and terminal
Footway Adjacent to 11 St Pancras Way London NW1 0PT
Received 4 Dec 2024 - Final Decision2024/5399/P
Installation of a rear dormer window and front facing roof lights and replacement of fenestration.
95 Leverton Street London Camden NW5 2NX
Received 4 Dec 2024 - Final Decision2024/5400/T
FRONT GARDEN: 1 x Ash (T1) - Reduce height by maximum 2.5 and shape. 1 x Ash (T2) - Reduce height by maximum 2.5 and shape.
89 South End Road London NW3 2RJ
Received 3 Dec 2024
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What these statistics cover
These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for London Borough of Camden, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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