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Akenside Court 26 Belsize Crescent London NW3 5QT

2025/2993/TNotification of Intended Works to Tree(s) in a Conservation AreaApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 11 August 2025

Council decision: No Objection to Works to Tree(s) in CADelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

AREA AT FRONT OF BLOCK: 1 x Holly (T1) - Reduce crown by approx. 1.2m -1.5m to include the lateral and sub lateral crown spread. 1 x Birch (T2) - Reduce crown by approx. 1.2m all round. Thin crown density by approx. 20%. 1 x Maple (Acer) (T3) - Reduce back to previous and most recent reduction points (approx. 1.2m - 1.7m). Thin crown density by up to 20%. 1 x Holly (T4) - Reduce by approx. 1m all round. 1 x Holly (T5) - Reduce height by 1.2m. 1 x Cotinus (Smoke Bush) - Reduce crown by approx. 1.2m all round.

Received
7 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Belsize
  1. Received7 Jul
  2. Validated7 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target7 Jul
  5. Decided11 Aug

Decided in 35 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Akenside Court 26 Belsize Crescent London NW3 5QT. Camden has handled 669 applications of this type. This one was decided in 35 days, 2 weeks quicker than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Fitzjohns Netherhall conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 325 applications across Belsize. We hold 2,616 applications in total for the NW3 postcode area.

98% of trees 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 5QT
Application type
Notification of Intended Works to Tree(s) in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 July 2025
Target decision date
7 July 2025

Additional information

Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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

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

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