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Highgate New Town Community Centre 25 Bertram Street London N19 5DQ

2023/5438/PVariation or Removal of Condition(s)Approved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 13 March 2024

Council decision: GrantedPlanning committee

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Proposal

Variation of condition 2 (Approved Plans) and condition 7 (Landscaping) of development granted under reference 2016/6088/P dated 30 June 2017 as varied by reference 2018/5774/P dated 29 March 2019, 2022/3378/P dated 10 March 2023, and 2023/2662/P dated 20 November 2023 for the "Redevelopment of the existing Highgate Newtown Community Centre and Fresh Youth Academy and the change of use of the People's Mission Gospel Hall to provide replacement community facilities (Use Class D1) and 41 residential units (Use Class C3) including 7 affordable units (intermediate) with associated public open space, landscaping, cycle storage, plant, disabled parking, and inclusion of the existing right of way on the western side of the site." Namely to make the following changes: - Construction of an ASHP at roof level of Building B including its relocation and visual screening - Installation of vertical shading structures externally to the windows at the east facing windows of Building A (Apartment A2) at ground floor level - Installation of privacy screening to the northern end of the balconies of Building D - Reduction in the number of rooflight to Building B and C - Relocation of the substation approximately 1m east from the approved location - Reduction in height of the Building C rear garden wall to 2.4 comprising a brick wall to 1.9m with an additional 0.5m privacy barrier above - Amendment to the parapet detail of the Building A roof to match the as built detail.

Received
22 December 2023
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Highgate
  1. Received22 Dec
  2. Validated22 Dec
  3. Consult.12 Jan
  4. Target16 Feb
  5. Decided13 Mar

Decided in 82 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at Highgate New Town Community Centre 25 Bertram Street London N19 5DQ. Camden has handled 713 applications of this type. This one was decided in 82 days, 5 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Dartmouth Park conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 282 applications across Highgate. We hold 555 applications in total for the N19 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
N19 5DQ
Application type
Variation or Removal of Condition(s)
Development type
C3 Dwelling House, D1 Non-Residential Institution
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
41

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 December 2023
Consultation expiry
12 January 2024
Consultation start
22 December 2023
Consultation end
12 January 2024
Last date for comments
28 January 2024
Target decision date
16 February 2024
Permission expires
13 March 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
28 December 2023

Additional information

Documents
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Dartmouth Park
  • Listed building: Grade II: 22-32 Winscombe StreetOn or next to this site
  • Article 4 direction: Basements
  • Brownfield land register: Highgate Newtown Community Centre - Unit A, B, C, D & E, 25 Bertram Street, London, N19 5…Register 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 (19)

flood storage areas, 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.

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Source: Camden

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