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Free Camden permitted development checker
Could your home project use permitted development? Start with your full address and tell us what you want to build.
You do not need to know the planning route before you start. The check uses available public records and your project details to provide guidance, not a council decision.
About the planning data
Checked against 20.6 million UK planning applications on file across 420 planning authorities. Approval rates from 2,343,419 decisions we classified across 181 councils in England.
What are you checking?
Whether your proposed work may qualify for permitted development, needs a prior approval process or requires a planning application. The property and the complete proposal matter, including earlier additions and conditions on previous permissions.
Read how prior approval works and how planning timescales differ by route.
A postcode locates an area; it cannot establish rights for a particular house. Use your full property address in the checker.
Find guidance for your project
- Rear extensions and larger home extensions
- Side and wraparound extensions
- Loft conversions and dormers
- Garden rooms and outbuildings
- Garage conversions
- Porches
- Two-storey extensions
- Basements
For development beyond a home improvement, read our new build and change of use guides. Those projects have different eligibility tests and need a project-specific assessment.
Local checks in Camden
Check the wording, map and effective date of any Article 4 direction, the property's planning conditions and whether designated land affects the relevant right. A restriction on one type of work does not automatically prohibit every alteration.
Use these resources for Camden. Confirm the authority for your address if you are close to a boundary or the area has changed council.
- Camden official website and planning information
- Search Camden planning applications and decision notices
- Camden planning authority boundary and source
- Find the planning authority for your postcode
We have not verified every local restriction for every address in Camden. Confirm property-specific details against the authority's current records before relying on permitted development.
Our Camden archive contains 8,841 classified home project decision records. Explore Camden decisions by project type. These records mix application routes: an approval rate is not a permitted development eligibility score. See the coverage and methodology.
Permitted development restrictions in Camden
Camden's heritage Article 4 page includes directions adopted in June 2026 for areas including Belsize, South Hampstead and Redington and Frognal. Use the affected-property schedules and maps, as well as older site-specific directions, rather than relying on a conservation-area name alone.
- Camden heritage Article 4 directions and affected properties
- Camden conservation areas and appraisals
- Camden local application requirements
- Camden adopted development plan and plan review
Sources reviewed . Check the source maps, wording and effective dates against your property and proposed work.
Match the Article 4 schedule to your property
Camden lists directions adopted on 9 June 2026 for areas including Belsize and South Hampstead, alongside older directions for particular properties and works. Read the property schedule, map and fact sheet together. A nearby permission predating a direction does not confirm the rights available at your address now. Read the council guidance.
What reviewed local decisions show
These examples use official planning records. Each identifies the decision date and links to the evidence reviewed. They are not Planning Approvals projects or a prediction for another property.
6 South Hill Park: a flat extension assessed on its actual impacts
2025/0981/P · Committee resolved to grant with conditions, 7 August 2025
This application replaced a rear conservatory at a basement flat. The report assessed the reduced roof bulk, retained garden and neighbouring extensions. Officers considered the limited excavation insufficient to trigger a Basement Impact Assessment in this case, and the committee voted to grant permission.
What to check: Show existing and proposed levels, roof form and landscaping. This was a planning application for a flat, not confirmation of householder permitted development rights or a general exemption from basement assessments.
Read the committee decision · Read the officer report (PDF)
Related guidance: Rear extensions · Basements
Check the planning register for the issued notice, exact conditions and any later appeal or revised application. A committee resolution is not a substitute for those documents.
Certificate records to investigate
We do not have a suitable certificate excerpt to display here. Use the council register to look up your address and comparable projects.
A certificate concerns the lawfulness of the scheme described. Another property's certificate does not establish your permitted development rights. Read the archive's coverage and limitations.
Do you need a permitted development certificate?
A proposed lawful development certificate gives formal confirmation that the development described is lawful. It is optional and is different from prior approval or a planning application. Read our lawful development certificate guide.
The free check does not grant permission or replace a certificate. Check official certificate guidance and the government's explanation of planning routes.