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Camden Christmas Lights Switch-On: Highgate Is Back in 2026
Camden Council holds no switch-on. Highgate village's lights return for 2026: last year's switch-on was 19 November, 4pm, South Grove. The date is due soon.
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Planning
Branch Hill House Flats Plan: Comments Close 2 November
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.
West Hampstead
West Hampstead Fire: Six Rescued From Fordwych Road House
Firefighters rescued six people, four of them by ladder, from a burning house on Fordwych Road. Nine engines attended; the cause is under investigation.
Remembrance
Camden Remembrance Sunday: St Pancras Church and Euston
Camden's civic Remembrance service is at St Pancras Church, then wreaths at the Euston war memorial. Last year's times, Hampstead's service and what to expect.
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.
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.
Business
The Alliance West Hampstead: Pub Company in Liquidation
The Mill Lane pub's licence holder went into liquidation on 25 August. In law that lapses a premises licence, and the window to reinstate closes 22 September.
Bloomsbury
Camden Fireworks: Coram's Fields Is Free on 5 November
Coram's Fields is free on Thursday 5 November: gates 3.30pm, fireworks 6pm, Guilford Street closed. Every adult needs a child. Ally Pally fires at 8pm and 6pm.