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Camden New Journal - by DAN CARRIER
Published: 11 October 2007

Things are looking up over basement plans

SENIOR Town Hall planners and lawyers have met the Heath and Hampstead Society to discuss the conservation group’s call to change the law over basement excavations.
Spurred into action by the spiralling number of applications in Hampstead, the Society delivered a new report calling for stricter guidelines to the council.
Planners will now meet their counterparts in Kensington and Chelsea where the laws were changed in the face of large numbers of wealthy householders choosing to create space in their homes by digging down.
Society member Gordon Maclean, who led the delegation that met two senior planning officers and a lawyer specialising in planning, said the meeting had offered a glimmer of hope for people who fear basement works could cause subsidence in their homes.

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