Highgate Cemetery, Swain's Lane, London, N6 6PJ Data via plota.co.uk

P2025/2493/OBS - Observations to Adjoining Borough FINAL DECISION

Proposal

REVISED TO OMIT PROJECT 6 (GARDENERS/ MOUND BUILDING) Restoration, conservation, demolition, replacement and erection of buildings in East Side and West Side of Highgate Cemetery, including erection of a gardeners building on the East Side, erection of visitor and operations building and relocation of Perkins monument on the West Side, Cemetery wide landscaping, drainage, public realm, access works and repair of mausolea, to support the function of a working cemetery, visitor and community uses. []. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
3 Sept 2025
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Validated
4 Sept 2025
Decision
Target date was 28 Oct 2025

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 6 Nov 2026; it is now day 428.

Documents

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Site constraints 11

Critical Drainage Group3_001
Metropolitan Open Land
Green belt level protection inside London.
The London Plan gives Metropolitan Open Land the same protection as green belt: inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Registered park or garden: Highgate Cemetery
Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.
Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.
Historic England ↗
Highgate Village conservation area
Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.
The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.
Council document ↗
Article 4 direction
Basements. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.
An Article 4 direction withdraws particular permitted development rights, so work that would normally need no application needs one here. Not every council has published its directions.
Priority habitat: Deciduous woodland
A habitat of principal importance. It shapes the ecology work and the biodiversity net gain a scheme has to show.
Archaeological priority area
An assessment or field evaluation may be asked for before ground works.
The council or Historic England considers archaeology likely here. A desk-based assessment, and sometimes trial trenching, can be asked for with the application.
Air quality management area: Camden AQMA
The council has declared the area as failing an air quality objective.
Schemes that add traffic, parking or combustion plant are assessed against the area's action plan and may need an air quality assessment.
Council record ↗
70 listed buildings within 150 m
Nearest: Tomb of Sarah Godbee and family in Highgate (Western) Cemetery, Grade II, 7 m away · 1 Grade I, 2 Grade II*, 66 Grade II
The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.
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Historic England ↗
Habitat network: Other Priority Habitats - NEZ
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Critical Drainage Group3_001Council record
Recorded by the council for this site.
Council site ↗
Also on the record
Public transport access: PTAL 2 (poor), TfL 2023, for the 100 m square.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 2 November 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, Transport for London (public transport access levels, Powered by TfL Open Data, OGL v3.0, contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council
Islington
Application type
Observations to Adjoining Borough
Postcode
N6 6PJ
Received
3 Sept 2025
Validated
4 Sept 2025
Case officer
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Target decision
28 Oct 2025
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
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Agent
Development Management

Decision outlook

Day 428, past the statutory target. 86% of other in Islington are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 31 Oct 2026.

Day 428372 days past the 56-day target
67%decided within 8 weeks
95%approved
2,311decided in the last year

Plota live figures for other decided across the UK in the last twelve months, from validation; too few recent other in Islington to go on. Islington decision record →

Historical activity at this location

25 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2024 Approved
The Proposed Work: Application: 2024/5423/L Restoration, conservation, demolition, replac…
P2024/3640/OBS
2024 Approved
Application ref: 2024/5407/P
P2024/3641/OBS
2024 Approved
WEST CEMETERY: 1 x Lime (T472) - Remove 1 x limb leaning in the direction of private resi…
2024/4944/T
2024
Restoration, conservation, demolition, replacement and erection of buildings in East Side…
2024/5423/L
2024
Restoration, conservation, demolition, replacement and erection of buildings in East Side…
2024/5407/P
2024 Approved
EAST CEMETERY: 1 x London Plane (T431) - Remove two large limbs. (See photo)
2024/4374/T
2024 Approved
WEST CEMETERY: 1 x Holly (T437) - Fell to the ground level.
2024/4193/T
2024 Approved
EAST CEMETERY: 1 x Cherry (T188) - Fell to ground level.
2024/4137/T
2024 Approved
EAST CEMETERY: 1 x Cherry (T336) - Fell to the ground level.
2024/4136/T
2024 Approved
DD 5 Day Notice WEST CEMETERY: 1 x Ash (T488) - Fell to ground level.
2024/2768/T
2024 Approved
EAST CEMETERY: 1 x Sycamore (T71) - Fell to ground level.
2024/3576/T
2024 Approved
EAST CEMETREY: 1 x Sycamore (T622) - Fell to ground level.
2024/3574/T
2024 Approved
WEST CEMETREY WEST CIRCLE: 1 x Goat Willow (T84) - Remove two limbs. (See photos).
2024/3577/T
2024 Approved
WEST CEMETERY: 1 x Ash (T577) - Fell to ground level.
2024/2983/T
2024 Approved
WEST CEMETERY BEER MAUSOLEUM: 1 x Holly (Ilex aquifolium) (T85) - Fell to ground level. 1…
2024/2867/T
2024 Approved
EAST & WEST CEMETERY: Implementation of the Highgate Cemetery Ash Dieback Management Plan…
2024/2878/T
2024 Approved
EAST CEMETERY: 1 x Ash (T586) - Fell to ground level.
2024/2548/T
2024 Approved
WEST CEMETERY: 1 x Ash (T580) - Fell to ground level .
2024/2459/T
2024 Approved
WEST CEMETERY: 1 x Ash (T579) - Fell to ground level.
2024/2458/T
2024 Approved
WEST CEMETERY: 1 x Cherry (T585) - Fell to ground level.
2024/2457/T
2019 Approved
DD 5 Day Notice IN WEST CEMETERY: T1 - 9741 - Ash x1 - Fell T2 - 9771 - Ash x1- fell T3…
2019/3410/T
2018 Approved
WITHIN GROUNDS: 1 x Cedar - Remove broken branches 2cm. Thin crown to remove 10% of live…
2018/0978/T
2017 Approved
Two freestanding stone columns to be erected either side of the existing sepulchre.
2017/6534/P
2017 Approved
Paving and landscape works adjacent to Marx memorial
2017/5941/L
2016 Approved
Removal of free-standing monument to the 9th Duke of St Albans
2016/2811/P
Islington
Planning Authority Score
2.9/10
Poor
#237 of 296 councils
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Householder decisions

Islington is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #260 out of 296. 53% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (93%) than the national average (90%).

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Islington decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
89%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #132 of 296
93%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #130 of 296
43%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #260 of 296
53%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #241 of 296
89%
Minor dwellings approved
499 decided (1-9 homes)
100%
Major dwellings approved
1 decided (10+ homes)
89%
Change of use approved
19 decided
1,488
Total decisions
167 refused in the year to March 2026
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