Policy information sourced from Camden Local Plan
H3 Protecting Existing Homes
The Council will aim to ensure that existing housing continues to meet the needs of existing and future households by:
- resisting development that would involve a net loss of residential floorspace, including any residential floorspace provided;
- within hostels or other housing with shared facilities; or
- as an ancillary element of another use, wherever the development involves changing the main use or separating the housing floorspace from the main use;
- protecting housing from permanent conversion to short-stay accommodation intended for occupation for periods of less than 90 days; and
- resisting development that would involve the net loss of two or more homes (from individual or cumulative proposals), unless they:
- create large homes in a part of the borough with a relatively low proportion of large dwellings;
- enable existing affordable homes to be adapted to provide the affordable dwelling-sizes that are most needed; or
- enable sub-standard units to be enlarged to meet residential space standards.
Exceptionally, the Council may support development that involves a limited loss of residential floorspace where this provides for the expansion of existing health premises to meet local needs.
For more information please see the Local Plan