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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.
England · Local authority
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
46,979 approved · 5,071 refused · 5,494 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Jan 2010 to 30 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 2 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
The Montague On The Garden 15 Montague Street London Camden WC1B 5BJ
Received 16 May 20249 Steele's Road London Camden NW3 4SE
Received 21 May 202413A West Heath Road London NW3 7UU
Received 17 May 202431 Southampton Row London Camden WC1B 5HJ
Received 21 May 2024Land to the West of Royal Mail Sorting Office Phoenix Place Mount Pleasant London
Received 23 May 2024Flat B 36 Hollycroft Avenue London NW3 7QN
Received 23 May 20246B Nutley Terrace London NW3 5BX
Received 17 May 2024Flat B 51 Lamb's Conduit Street London WC1N 3NB
Received 16 May 2024West Lodge 190 Euston Road London NW1 2EF
Received 22 May 202417 Highgate High Street London N6 5JT
Received 17 May 2024Park Village East NW1 2DU
Received 17 May 202424 Willow Road London NW3 1TL
Received 17 May 202478 New Oxford Street London WC1A 1HB
Received 29 May 2024The Hampstead Figure Sculpture to the North of Swiss Cottage Library Avenue Road AND Land to the south of Swiss Cottage Leisure Centre Adelaide Road London NW3 3NF
Received 29 May 2024Offices And Premises At Ground And 1st Floor Plouviez House 19-20 Hatton Place London EC1N 8RU
Received 23 May 2024Clock Tower Flat 4 49 Heath Street London NW3 6UD
Received 30 May 202455-59 Gordon Square London WC1H 0NU
Received 17 May 2024Acorn House 314-320 Gray's Inn Road London Camden WC1X 8DP
Received 30 May 2024Nutley Cottage Nutley Terrace London NW3 5BX
Received 21 May 2024Palm Court 40 - 42 Fitzjohn's Avenue London NW3 5LY
Received 17 May 2024The Hampstead Figure Sculpture to the North of Swiss Cottage Library Avenue Road AND Land to the south of Swiss Cottage Leisure Centre Adelaide Road London NW3 3NF
Received 29 May 2024Maple House 149 Tottenham Court Road London W1T 7NF
Received 23 May 2024Chilton Square London N1C 4DB
Received 22 May 20246 Glenmore Road London NW3 4DB
Received 17 May 2024Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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