# Camden Road (outside No 57), Camden

- **Decision:** allowed, 10 September 2026
- **Decided by:** Planning Inspector: David Troy
- **Authority:** Camden (London)
- **Appeal reference:** 6007217
- **Application reference:** 2025/5806/P
- **Procedure:** written-representations
- **Development:** BT Street Hub 3 replacing InLink unit, with digital advertisement screens (advert appeal 6007216)
- **Site context:** inside-settlement, conservation-area
- **Green Belt:** no
- **Framework applied:** August 2026 NPPF
- **Determinative policies:** HE9, TR4(1)(c)
- **Development plan policies:** Camden Local Plan 2017 A1, C5, C6, D1, D2, D4, G1, T1
- **Main issues:** character/CA, highway, crime, maintenance
- **Tags:** tier-2, street-hub, telecoms, advertisement, parties-consulted-on-2026-framework, conservation-area

## Summary
A BT Street Hub replacing an InLink unit in the Camden Broadway Conservation Area, beside the overground bridge, was allowed. It was comparable in scale in a busy, varied streetscape, left 3.3 m of clear footway, and raised no site-specific crime evidence. Maintenance was secured by condition rather than by s106.

## What made the difference
The existing InLink baseline and the visually busy setting under the railway bridge. The crime concerns were generic, not site-specific (DL ¶¶10–13, 21). Compare the fork-harvested hub dismissals in quieter or listed settings (PINS-6009772, PINS-6010617, PINS-6010844, PINS-6013695).

## Policy findings
- **HE9: pass.** varied, cluttered baseline under railway bridge; comparable to existing InLink; Camden Broadway CA preserved (DL 8-14)
- **TR4(1)(c): pass.** 3.3 m clear footway meets TfL high-flow guidance (DL 15-18)
- **P5: pass.** crime concerns generic, not site-specific; replacement is broadly neutral (DL 19-22)
- **DM6: pass.** maintenance secured by condition requiring compliance with BT maintenance/ASB plans; s106 not required (DL 23-27)

## Key facts
- Parties consulted on 2026 Framework (DL 5)
- Earlier Camden hub dismissals (APP/X5210/W/22/3297273) distinguished; 10-year advert consent refused

## Sources
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/published-document/f0e1ba87-5501-445d-aa58-41019eff3e5b
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/comment-planning-appeal/appeals/6007217

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