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A new application to turn Camden's former Branch Hill care home in Hampstead into flats is on the register. The 2021 consent lapsed; comments close 2 November.
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Kenwood
Kenwood This Winter: Free, 10am to 4pm, Father Christmas
Kenwood stays free all winter, open 10am to 4pm from 26 October and shut 24 to 26 December. Father Christmas is on December weekends at £15 a child.
New Year's Eve
Camden New Year's Eve: Primrose Hill Shut Last Year
Primrose Hill was locked from 8pm on 30 December to 6am on New Year's Day last year. What we know for 2026, Parliament Hill, fireworks tickets, trains.
Planning
BT Tower Hotel Plans Lodged: Comments Close 11 October
Camden has registered plans to turn the BT Tower into a hotel, with a bar, a pool and a public floor at the top. Comments close on 11 October.
Elections
Restore Britain's Camden Proposer Leads Another Party
Patrick McGinnis proposed Restore Britain's Holborn and St Pancras candidate. The Electoral Commission register names him leader of the National Housing Party.
Elections
Holborn and St Pancras: How All 15 Candidates Polled
Sagal Abdi-Wali won with 12,292 votes and eleven of the 15 candidates lost their deposits. Every name, party and address constituency from the official list.
House prices
Camden House Prices July 2026: Down £91,914 in a Year
The average Camden home is £815,159, down £91,914 on July last year. It is the steepest annual fall in eleven years, and flats took the worst of it.
Planning
Euston Area Plan: 250 Euston Road Tower Cut to 53m
Camden has cut the tower it would allow at 250 Euston Road from 75m to about 53m and its homes from 115 to 80. The Euston plan now heads to an inspector.
Elections
Sagal Abdi-Wali: Camden Council Leader Is Labour's Pick
Labour's by-election candidate runs Camden Council. In May the Greens finished 18 votes short in her own ward. What happens to the council if she wins.
Flooding
South Hampstead Flooding: 9,600 sq m of Rain Gardens Mapped
Residents who flooded in 2021 have mapped almost 9,600 sq m of rain gardens across South Hampstead and Kilburn, costed street by street, and taken it to Camden.
Elections
Holborn and St Pancras By-Election: How the Timetable Ran
Polling day was 8 October and Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali won by 3,364 votes. Every deadline the council set, from the writ to the overnight count, in one place.
Health
Camden Free Blood Pressure Checks: Where the Pods Are
One free health pod is open, at 2 Ossulton Street NW1, Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm. Blood pressure, weight and BMI, with no GP appointment needed.
Elections
Holborn and St Pancras By-Election: Result and Which Wards
Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali won on 8 October by 3,364 votes on a 38.76% turnout. Which ten Camden wards were in the seat, and what changes for the council now.
Camden Today covers the London borough of Camden: Camden Town, Kentish Town, Hampstead and West Hampstead, Belsize Park, Swiss Cottage, Primrose Hill, Chalk Farm, Gospel Oak, Dartmouth Park, Somers Town, Euston, King’s Cross, Bloomsbury, Holborn and the Camden side of Kilburn. We report what the borough’s own records show, the planning applications Camden Council registers week by week, the decisions and announcements it publishes, police crime figures, hygiene ratings and the businesses opening and closing across NW1, NW3, NW5, NW6, WC1 and EC1N. We also keep the everyday information you look up more than once accurate and in one place, checked against the source and dated.
Every story is built from a named public source: Camden Council’s own newsroom, its open register of current planning applications, police.uk crime data, the Food Standards Agency’s hygiene ratings, The Gazette and Companies House. We link to that source so you can check it yourself, and we say when we last updated a figure.
Two things shape what counts as a Camden story here. The borough’s edges are untidy: Kilburn is split with Brent, and King’s Cross and St Pancras run up against the Islington boundary, so we confirm an address before we call it ours. And Camden hosts a lot of national institutions, from the British Library and UCL to St Pancras International; their announcements are national news with a Camden postcode, and we cover them when they change something for people who live here.