Georgian brick terrace with sash windows, arched fanlight doorways, stone steps and iron railings in London — Photograph: Lorenc Memaga

01Areas we cover

Highgate: period house drawings for two boroughs

Stand on Highgate High Street and the council changes under your feet. Each side has its own conservation area, its own appraisal and its own list of Article 4 directions, so the postal address does not tell you who will read your drawings. We settle that before we quote.

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02The record

Highgate on the record

Figures with their unit, period and source
Measure	Value	Period	Source
Conservation area	Highgate	designated 1967-12-21	haringey.gov.uk
Local fact	Haringey designated Highgate on 21 December 1967, the first of its conservation areas.	No period	haringey.gov.uk
Local fact	Camden's Highgate Conservation Area was designated in 1968 and extended in 1978 and 1992; its appraisal and management strategy was adopted in October 2007.	No period	camden.gov.uk
Local fact	The village core has 18th- and 19th-century small-scale terraces and traditional shopfronts on late-medieval burgage plots, with Pond Square, on the Camden side, at its heart.	No period	minutes.haringey.gov.uk
Local planning consideration	Highgate village is divided between Haringey and Camden, and each council has its own Highgate Conservation Area; Haringey's southern boundary runs along the middle of Highgate High Street.	No period	minutes.haringey.gov.uk
Conservation areas	33 named conservation areas published by the council	No period	planning.data.gov.uk
Article 4 directions	25 Article 4 directions published by the council	No period	planning.data.gov.uk
Conservation areas	40 named conservation areas published by the council	No period	planning.data.gov.uk
Listed building consents granted (PS2)	86.5 % granted	2025 Q2 to 2026 Q1 (1 Apr 2025 to 31 Mar 2026)	assets.publishing.service.gov.uk

A blank value means the figure has not been published, not that there are none. Check your own address with the council.

Highgate1 conservation area

Conservation areas named for Highgate

Highgate: designated 21 December 1967

Rows of brick terraced houses and gardens on a residential street — Photograph: Altaf Shah

03The drawing

Constraints check: Haringey

What we check first on any address in Haringey. Counts are for the whole council area.

A Conservation areas: 33 named conservation areas published by the council
B Article 4 directions: 25 Article 4 directions published by the council
C Listed building entries: 289 list entries (Historic England, within the LPA boundary)
D Heritage at Risk entries: 21 Heritage at Risk Register entries within the LPA boundary (Historic England)

A period street in three dimensions3D

Scroll the page: the model turns with it.

04The brief

One village, two councils

Highgate village is divided between Haringey and Camden, and each council has its own Highgate Conservation Area; Haringey's southern boundary runs along the middle of Highgate High Street. Camden's Highgate appraisal notes that Haringey's Highgate Conservation Area covers the area east and north of the High Street.

Your side of the High Street decides who the officer is. Haringey publishes 33 conservation areas and 25 Article 4 directions; Camden publishes 40 conservation areas and 21 Article 4 directions.

Red-brick mansion blocks and shopfronts on a street corner

05The detail

The village core around Pond Square

The village core has 18th- and 19th-century small-scale terraces and traditional shopfronts on late-medieval burgage plots, with Pond Square, on the Camden side, at its heart. A visible roof or window change is judged against a street at that small scale.

Alterations to a house in the core are read against the historic plot pattern as much as the building. We draw the plot, the neighbours' eaves and the street frontage on one sheet.

Two designation histories

Haringey designated Highgate on 21 December 1967, the first of its conservation areas. Haringey's appraisal records boundary extensions on 27 September 1990 and 29 November 1994 (part of Stanhope Road).

Camden's Highgate Conservation Area was designated in 1968 and extended in 1978 and 1992; its appraisal and management strategy was adopted in October 2007. Both appraisals are the documents the officer will cite, so we cite the one for your side when we explain the design.

Heritage routes on either side of the line

Haringey records 289 list entries, with 52 listed building consent decisions in its latest year, 86.5% of them granted. A listed house on the Haringey side follows listed building consent drawings in Haringey; on the Camden side, listed building consent drawings in Camden.

Roof changes follow the same split, with mansard roof drawings in Haringey for one side and mansard roof drawings in Camden for the other. Other north London districts are on our Hampstead and Muswell Hill pages.

Planning sheet for a single-storey rear extension: proposed ground floor plan and rear elevation, with the Property Architecture title block — **Sample drawing.** Proposed plan and rear elevation from a planning application set, sheet 03 at 1:50.

06The papers

What the drawings rest on

Rear view of brick terraced houses in London with slate roofs and chimney stacks along the shared roofline — Photograph: Ben Hadfield

Building regulations section through a rear extension, with the roof, floor, wall and foundation build-ups labelled — **Sample drawing.** Section A-A with the build-ups building control checks, sheet 07 at 1:50.

Which council is my Highgate house in?

Highgate village is split between Haringey and Camden, and Haringey's southern boundary runs along the middle of the High Street. Send us the address and we confirm the council, the conservation area and any Article 4 direction before quoting.

Do the two Highgate conservation areas have different rules?

Each council has its own appraisal and its own directions, so yes. We draw to the appraisal for your side and name it in the covering letter.

Which council handles listed building consent for my side of the High Street?

The council that owns your side of the line, which is why we confirm the boundary first. A house on the Camden side goes to Camden, and one east or north of the High Street goes to Haringey. The consent drawings are prepared for that officer and cite that council's appraisal.

Does Pond Square fall under Camden or Haringey?

The village core has 18th- and 19th-century small-scale terraces and traditional shopfronts on late-medieval burgage plots, with Pond Square, on the Camden side, at its heart. That puts the square on the Camden side, and a house facing it is read against Camden's Highgate appraisal.

Upper floors of a large yellow-brick Victorian house in London with chimney pots — Photograph: Lorenc Memaga

08Further reading

Drawings in Highgate

Nearby neighbourhoods

09Sources

Sources and dates

haringey.gov.uk, retrieved 17 October 2026
camden.gov.uk, retrieved 17 October 2026
minutes.haringey.gov.uk, retrieved 17 October 2026
planning.data.gov.uk, retrieved 7 October 2026
planning.data.gov.uk, retrieved 17 October 2026
planning.data.gov.uk, retrieved 7 October 2026
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk, retrieved 17 October 2026
planning.data.gov.uk, retrieved 17 October 2026
planning.data.gov.uk, retrieved 17 October 2026
planning.data.gov.uk, retrieved 17 October 2026

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Kensington street lined with brick townhouses and lit streetlamps beneath an orange dusk sky

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