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55 South Hill Park London NW3 2SS

2023/1999/PHouseholder ApplicationApproved
Householder

Approved on 13 July 2023

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Infill of existing light well with internal habitable space to lower ground floor and erection of single storey rear extension at ground floor level; external alterations to the front and rear facades including instatement of decorative plaster work to the front facade, removal of unoriginal tiles to the front steps and replacement with Portland stone, and the removal of redundant plastic pipework and services items on the rear facade and their replacement with traditionally detailed wrought iron downpipes and hoppers.

Received
17 May 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Hampstead Town
  1. Received17 May
  2. Validated5 Jun
  3. Consult.25 Jul
  4. Target26 Jun
  5. Decided13 Jul

Decided in 38 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a single storey rear extension at 55 South Hill Park London NW3 2SS. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 57 days, 8 days longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the South Hill Park conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 418 applications across Hampstead Town. We hold 2,616 applications in total for the NW3 postcode area.

90% of full 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 2SS
Application type
Householder Application
Development type
C3 Dwelling House
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 June 2023
Consultation expiry
25 July 2023
Consultation start
5 June 2023
Consultation end
25 July 2023
Last date for comments
25 July 2023
Target decision date
26 June 2023
Permission expires
13 July 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Publicity

Site notice start
7 June 2023

Additional information

Documents
26

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: South Hill Park
  • Article 4 direction: Basements
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage 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, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

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

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© 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

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