# Footpath outside 45-46 Chalk Farm Road, Camden (BT Street Hub)

- **Decision:** dismissed, 10 September 2026
- **Decided by:** Planning Inspector: David Troy
- **Authority:** Camden (London)
- **Appeal reference:** 6007360
- **Application reference:** 2025/5854/P
- **Procedure:** written-representations
- **Development:** BT Street Hub replacing a telephone kiosk, with double-sided digital advertisement panels (Appeal A; linked advert Appeal B 6007364)
- **Site context:** inside-settlement, listed-building-setting
- **Green Belt:** no
- **Framework applied:** August 2026 NPPF
- **Determinative policies:** HE6(4), CO1
- **Development plan policies:** Camden Local Plan 2017 D1, D2, D4, G1, A1, C5, C6, T1
- **Main issues:** character and heritage, pedestrian safety, community safety
- **Tags:** tier-2, telecoms, street-hub, heritage-harm-decisive, parties-consulted-on-2026-framework

## Summary
A BT Street Hub on a cluttered Camden Town footway was refused. Lower-level harm to the setting of a conservation area and a Grade II* listed building, clutter and pedestrian obstruction outweighed benefits that were given substantial weight but were modest (DL 13-15, 22).

## What made the difference
The already cluttered footway and pedestrian desire line. The hub's bulk made it the most prominent object on the street (DL 8-9, 20).

## Policy findings
- **HE6(4): fail.** lower-level harm to setting of Regent's Canal CA and Grade II* Stable Yard (DL 11-13)
- **CO1: benefit (substantial weight).** 'given substantial weight in line with the Framework' but modest in scale (DL 14-15)
- **TR4: fail.** undue obstruction on a busy footway desire line (DL 18-22)

## Key facts
- Parties consulted on the 17 Aug 2026 Framework (DL 4)
- Crime and anti-social behaviour concerns not substantiated for this site (DL 25-26)

## Sources
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/comment-planning-appeal/appeals/6007360
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/published-document/b9fe36f4-b689-4a9f-9532-0de71a98016a

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