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49, Downshire Hill, London, NW3 1NX

2025/2522/PHouseholder planning & demolition in a conservation areaApproved
Householder

Approved on 22 August 2025

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of summerhouse and garden shed and erection of timber garden shed (retrospective)

Submitted
11 June 2025
  1. Received11 Jun
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided22 Aug

Decided in 72 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a planning application for demolition at 49, Downshire Hill, London, NW3 1NX. Camden has handled 56 applications of this type. This one was decided in 72 days, 3 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Hampstead conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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 householder planning & demolition in a conservation area 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 1NX
Application type
Householder planning & demolition in a conservation area

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Hampstead
  • Listed building: Grade II: 49, Downshire HillOn this site · +3 more
  • Article 4 direction: Basements+2 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

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

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Source: Camden

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