# Footpath outside 9-17 Highgate Road, Camden (BT Street Hub)

- **Decision:** dismissed, 10 September 2026
- **Decided by:** Planning Inspector: David Troy
- **Authority:** Camden (London)
- **Appeal reference:** 6007598
- **Application reference:** 2025/5852/P
- **Procedure:** written-representations
- **Development:** BT Street Hub replacing a telephone kiosk, with double-sided digital advertisement panels (Appeal A; linked advert Appeal B 6007600)
- **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 companion decision to PINS-6007360 by the same inspector. A BT Street Hub outside the listed Forum theatre in Kentish Town was dismissed for harm to the open footway, the theatre's setting and pedestrian movement (DL 9-22).

## What made the difference
Here the harm arose from introducing clutter into an open, well-spaced footway (DL 8-9).

## Policy findings
- **HE6(4): fail.** lower-level harm to setting of Grade II Forum theatre; church setting preserved (DL 11-13)
- **CO1: benefit (substantial weight).** substantial weight but modest benefits (DL 14-15)
- **TR4: fail.** obstruction on the pedestrian desire line outside the theatre (DL 18-22)

## Key facts
- Uncluttered, open footway, unlike the Chalk Farm Road site (DL 8-9)
- Parties consulted on the 2026 Framework (DL 4)

## Sources
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/comment-planning-appeal/appeals/6007598
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/published-document/2253ef64-c590-4cc2-9cce-c3c882518761

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