There are various types f application that you can make to Barnet Council. These are listed below.

1. Planning permission or Listed Building Consent

When applying for planning permission or Listed Building Consent you should send the following information:

• Three sets of application forms and scaled drawings showing:
• what your property looks like now and what you propose to do to it;
• how the proposal would affect neighbouring or adjoining houses;
• full elevations at scale of 1;100 or 1:50;
• details of proposed windows, doors and similar features at scale of 1:20.
• A location plan ideally at a scale of 1:1250.

You may have to pay a fee when making an application for planning permission. The Council can let you have a planning application guidance note and a checklist of the information required. It will also provide a scale of fees and relevant application forms.

2. Conservation Area Consent

This is needed if you intend totally or partially to demolish an unlisted building with a total cubic content greater than 115m³.

Please follow the advice given in (a) above. You will not need to pay a fee for this kind of application.

3. Advertisement Consent

This will probably be needed if you want to put up an advertisement in the Conservation Area. The Advertisement Regulations are complicated. Contact the Planning Group for advice.

4. Works to trees

Works to a tree included in a tree Preservation Order (TPO) will usually require the Council’s consent. You will not need to pay a fee for this. Please note that if it is necessary to treat or remove a protected tree to carry out an approved planning permission, you do not need to get separate permission from the Council for it.

If the tree is not protected by a TPO you need to serve notice on the Council in writing at least six weeks before you intend to carry out works to the tree.

Please contact the Planning Group for further details and application forms.

5. structural alterations

Approval under the Building Regulation is needed for any structural alterations, additions and, in some cases, refurbishment. The Council’s Building Control Group will be able to advise you.

Please contact the Council at the address below for any information you need.

Planning group

Barnet House

1255 High Road

London N20 0EJ

Tel: 0181-466 8511 Ext 4617

Changes requiring consent from both the Trust and Barnet Council.

• A change of use of a building or part of it.
• Building an extension.
• putting a room in the roof with dormer windows or rooflights.
• Changing windows, external doors, garage doors or gates, even in detail or material or colour.
• Installing new windows, with or without double glazing.
• re-pointing brickwork.
• painting external walls which are presently unpainted or significantly changing their colour.
• Renewing roof tiles.
• Taking down a chimney stack or reducing its height.
• installing or significantly altering external pipes. (In the case of Trust consent, any alterations.)
• Installing a new external flue pipe or balanced flue.
• installing an external gas or electricity meter box.
• Building a garage or lean-to.
• Erecting a garden shed or greenhouse.
• Putting up a fence or wall.
• Making a hardstanding or means access.
• Cutting down or pruning a tree of any size.
• Installing satellite dishes.
• Total or partial demolition of a building with a cubic content greater than 115m³. (In the case of Trust Consent any demolition is controlled.)
• Displaying most advertisements.
• Installation of a new shopfront.

This is not a definitive list. In case of doubt consult the Trust and Council.

Trust Consent will also be required for the following:

• Removing or renewing a hedge.
• Repaving a drive, path or patio in different materials.
• Paving an area in the garden or changing the layout.
• Structural works inside buildings when the Trust is the immediate landlord.

Listed Building Consent will be required for most internal and external alterations to listed buildings.

Buildings Regulation approval is required for any structural alterations, additions and in some cases refurbishment.

The Council’s powers to enforce the advice contained in this leaflet

If you carry out works for which you need, but have not obtained, the Council’s written permission, the Council can take action against you. You can be made to return your property to its former condition, which will probably be very expensive. If your property is a listed building, you may be prosecuted for carrying out unauthorised works as well as being required to restore the building to its former condition. The Trust also has the powers legally to enforce the stipulations and covenants referred to on page 4.

This document supplements and expands upon the policies within the Unitary Development Plan generally to maintain and improve the character and quality of the environment throughout the Borough. It is consistent with those policies and therefore has the status of supplementary planning guidance. The document has benefited from Council Resolution and a public consultation exercise. This has enhanced its status and due weight will be accorded to it as a material consideration in the determination of development proposals. It forms the design guidance section to the Hampstead Garden Suburb Conservation Area Statement and should be read in conjunction with that document to provide a comprehensive summary of the Council’s attitude to development on the Suburb.