Kilburn Neighbourhood Plan
The Council formally adopted the Kilburn Neighbourhood Plan on 2 March 2026.
Key documents
Plan Submission
Kilburn Neighbourhood Forum submitted its proposed Neighbourhood Plan to Camden and Brent Council for the cross boundary neighbourhood area in May 2025.
All PDFs:.
- Draft Kilburn Neighbourhood Plan
- Statement of Basic Conditions
- Consultation Statement
- Area boundary
- Submission letter
- Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) - screening opinion
- Equalities Impact Assessment
The six week public consultation ended 11 July 2025. The responses can be found here:
Submission consultation responses (PDF)
Examination
Camden and Brent with support from Kilburn Neighbourhood Forum appointed Mr Derek Stebbing to hold an independent examination of the Neighbourhood Plan. The examination took place between July and September 2025.
The following documents related to the Examination:
- Letter to Forum and Councils on procedural matters and questions - July 2025
- Neighbourhood Forum response to Questions 1 & 2 - August 2025
- Neighbourhood Forum suggested Amendments to Appendix 2 - August 2025
- Camden Council response to Question 4. - August 2025
The Examiners report was received on 30 September 2025 and stated subject to modifications being made the Plan met the basic conditions.
Camden and Brent considered the examiners report and decided on 23 October 2025 to accept the Examiners recommendations and publish a Decision Statement and proceed to a referendum.
- Decision Statement report
- Appendix 1 - Examiners report
- Appendix 2 - Decision Statement
- Appendix 3 - Referendum version of Kilburn Neighbourhood Plan
Referendum
A referendum was held on 11 December 2025 where all eligible voters were asked:
'Do you want the London Boroughs of Brent and Camden to use
the Neighbourhood Plan for Kilburn to help them decide planning
applications in the neighbourhood area?’
Of the votes cast, 88% supported the Council using the Plan, 12% voted against. The turn out was 9%.
On being approved at referendum the Plan became part of the development plan in the neighbourhood area.
Neighbourhood Plan 'made' (adopted) 2 March 2026
Area and Forum applications
On 3 June 2016 the London Borough of Camden and Brent Councils approved the designation of the Neighbourhood Area and Neighbourhood Forum. A public consultation on the Forum and Area applications took place between 3 March to 15 April 2016.
The 2016 approved applications can be viewed below, they show the area in which the neighbourhood planning powers apply.
- Area boundary (including borough boundary)
- Kilburn Neighbourhood Forum Area
- Area application
- Forum application
- Constitution
The Kilburn Neighbourhood Forum was redesignated for another 5 years on 28 January 2022.