
Planning consultants in Hampstead.
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Planning for Hampstead houses on the hill. Camden and the 2025 neighbourhood plan both test every scheme.
Hampstead applications, under two plans.
- July 2025
- Hampstead Neighbourhood Plan adopted
- Audited
- Every basement impact assessment
- NW3
- London Borough of Camden
NU Projects is a design and build company in Fulham SW6, founded in 2010. We handle planning applications and appeals in Hampstead NW3, under one contract. Fees are priced per project by our own quantity surveyor, from the actual scope. Call 020 7731 6841, and a budget estimate typically follows within seven days.
Georgian and Victorian houses climb a steep hill here. Most are family homes with long gardens. Plenty back onto green space.
Camden protects most of the village through conservation areas. Across the borough there are 40, over roughly half its land. Local Plan Policy D1 asks every design to respect its context.
The July 2025 neighbourhood plan adds a local layer. DH1 wants additions to defer to the original house. DH2 keeps period windows, doors and boundary walls, or restores them.
Digging down is the hardest application. Camden withdrew basement permitted development in June 2017. Each scheme now carries an impact assessment, independently audited at the applicant’s expense.
Hydrology drives that report on a slope like this. Groundwater and tree roots are both modelled. Under CC1, keeping and upgrading the house is weighed before any demolition.
What Camden and the plan ask in Hampstead.
- Council
- Camden, Local Plan of July 2017. The hill brings extra tests.
- Hampstead plan
- Adopted July 2025. Groundwater and trees get their own scrutiny.
- Additions
- DH1. Extensions defer to the house. Dormers small, set back, preferably behind.
- Originals
- DH2. Period windows, doors and walls kept or reinstated.
- Basements
- An application since June 2017, with an audited impact assessment.
- Materials
- DH3 favours lime, timber and gentle energy upgrades.
Source: Camden Local Plan 2017, Camden’s Basements guidance 2021, and the Hampstead plan 2025. Read on 5 October 2026. Policies change, so we read them again for your address.
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A basement application here carries an audited impact assessment, priced separately.
Every report and fee is listed before you commit.
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What does the Hampstead Neighbourhood Plan change for an extension?
DH1 asks any addition to stay subservient to the original house.
Dormers should be small, set back and preferably at the back.
Who pays for the Basement Impact Assessment audit in Hampstead?
You do, as the applicant.
Camden appoints an independent auditor to check the assessment.
Damage next door must stay within Burland category 1.
Can I replace the old sash windows on my Hampstead house?
DH2 favours keeping original windows, or restoring lost ones.
We inspect each sash before suggesting repair or replacement.
Will Camden let me demolish a Hampstead house and rebuild?
CC1 expects retrofit to be strongly considered first.
A rebuild case needs evidence that refurbishment will not work.
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