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551-557 Finchley Road London NW3 7BJ

2023/0383/PVariation or Removal of Condition(s)Approved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 13 December 2023

Council decision: Granted Subject to a Section 106 Legal AgreementDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Variation of condition 2 (approved drawings) of planning permission 2020/5444/P approved 24/12/2021 for the part change of use from Use Class E and F1 and remodelling of the existing building to provide residential apartments (C3) along with flexible commercial (Class E)/pub/wine bar/drinking establishments (Sui Generis) uses, alterations including partial demolition and extensions at the rear at lower ground, ground and first floor levels, extension to provide an additional storey at roof level, levelling of the lower ground floor level, remodelling and restoration of front facade, amenity space, cycle parking and associated works; namely, changes to approved dwelling mix and internal layouts, reduction in commercial floorspace and minor changes to elevations.

Received
27 January 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Fortune Green
  1. Received27 Jan
  2. Validated2 May
  3. Consult.23 May
  4. Target1 Aug
  5. Decided13 Dec

Decided in 225 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at 551-557 Finchley Road London NW3 7BJ. Camden has handled 713 applications of this type. This one was decided in 320 days, 39 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 86 applications across Fortune Green. We hold 2,616 applications in total for the NW3 postcode area.

98% of conditions applications at London Borough of Camden were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
NW3 7BJ
Application type
Variation or Removal of Condition(s)
Development type
C3 Dwelling House, Commercial, business & service uses, Sui Generis
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 May 2023
Consultation expiry
23 May 2023
Consultation start
2 May 2023
Consultation end
23 May 2023
Last date for comments
29 May 2023
Target decision date
1 August 2023
Permission expires
13 December 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Site notice start
5 May 2023

Additional information

Documents
28

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Article 4 direction: Basements
  • Brownfield land register: 551-557 Finchley Road, London, NW3 7BJRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Camden

Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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