Our newly-renamed South Hampstead Conservation Area!

On Monday 28th Feb, Camden's Cabinet Councillor for the Environment will be formally approving the Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Strategy review. This follows a lot of work and extensive consultation. It's an excellent document that is well worth a good read, especially for this interested in local architecture and history. It should certainly improve the local authority's ability to manage this conservation area, which sadly as we know is on English Heritage's "conservation areas at risk" register. Three other points:

The consultation response strongly favoured a change of name for the conservation area (not the ward) from Swiss Cottage to South Hampstead, and this change is happening.

There was a comment about extending to include St Mary's Church, given the importance of local views. In fact the church is in the neighbouring Priory Rd conservation area, but the council certainly needs to make sure there is a holistic approach across conservation areas.

Finally, special thanks to all those in the residents group CRASH who contributed a great deal to this process, and many of their points are reflected in the final document being approved on Monday.