Highgate Neighbourhood Forum
Helping deliver the Highgate Neighbourhood PlanHighgate Neighbourhood Forum
Helping deliver the Highgate Neighbourhood PlanWe’re the Highgate Neighbourhood Forum
The HNF is an independent body, run by a committee of locals on behalf of the community to ensure we have a say in the future of our neighbourhood and that we all benefit from these changes. Everyone who lives or works in the Plan area is automatically a member of the Forum.
The HNF gives us more control and say over planning decisions that affect housing, shops and other developments. We also have initiatives around open spaces, economic activity and our high streets, social support, sustainability and transport.
In 2017 our Neighbourhood Plan became integrated into planning law. The Plan provides a blueprint and has a range of policies and projects. Because the HNF is a statutory consultee, Camden and Haringey Council are obliged to consult with us when planning applications are submitted for the Highgate area.
We are also involved in how the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) is spent in our neighbourhood.
Local issues
Together with other organisations, we are working to make improvements to Highgate in these areas:
News and Views
HNF response to DP Healthy Neighbourhood proposals
Highgate Neighbourhood Forum response to co-design phase of Dartmouth Park Healthy Neighbourhood proposals by Camden Council July/Aug 2024 Traffic congestion and pollution have always been key concerns for locals for decades and we welcome Camden’s work to start to...
The threat to the local hydrology and ecology posed by the School’s proposals
Local resident and veteran environmental campaigner Nicky Gavron warns Highgate about the impact of Highgate School's development proposals. The work of the Highgate Neighbourhood Forum has been very valuable in regard to this topic, especially the way you have...
What will Highgate School’s proposed developments mean for Highgate?
Commentary on Highgate School development proposals by Gail Waldman, Chair, Highgate Conservation Area Advisory Committee This will take you through each application from a heritage and conservation area perspective but that is definitely not to say that each...
Guide to doing your own Citizen Science Project
Highgate Neighbourhood Forum Citizen Science Guide HNF are encouraging everyone in Highgate - and particularly those with gardens on our suggested wildlife corridors - to survey their patch. Thanks to Heath Hands for these suggestions on how to begin your Citizen...
Help us map Highgate’s Wildlife Corridors
Our project to increase Highgate's biodiversity began with a meeting of all the neighbourhood's major landowners (schools, parks, Parkland Walk, Heath Hands, Omved Gardens, the Golf Club etc) back in September 2022. Inspiring speakers told us about what they were...
Work to restore The Bank begins
Long awaited structural repairs to the historic Bank retaining wall and the replacement of footpaths and railings, as well as resurfacing of the Bank itself, began on 20 November 2023. The works will continue until 20 April 2024 with a break from 22 December until...
Highgate needs YOU
The Forum is made up of people like you who care about making Highgate a better place to live and work. Come join us!
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