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89 Swain's Lane London Camden N6 6PJ

2023/4693/PCertificate of Lawfulness (Proposed)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 15 January 2024

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Conversion of the garage into habitable accomodation, infill space under the overhang and insert two roller shutters, new entrance door with side glazed panel.

Received
1 November 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Highgate
  1. Received1 Nov
  2. Validated24 Nov
  3. Consult.1 Nov
  4. Target15 Dec
  5. Decided15 Jan

Decided in 52 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a garage at 89 Swain's Lane London Camden N6 6PJ. Camden has handled 178 applications of this type. This one was decided in 75 days, 4 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Highgate Village conservation area, with 14 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 282 applications across Highgate. We hold 1,123 applications in total for the N6 postcode area.

97% of outline 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
N6 6PJ
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness (Proposed)
Development type
C3 Dwelling House
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 November 2023
Last date for comments
1 November 2023
Target decision date
15 December 2023
Permission expires
15 January 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Highgate Village
  • Article 4 direction: Basements
  • Registered park and garden: Highgate Cemetery
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, 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

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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