THEY share an unusual love-nest: two homes in the same Belsize Park block, separated by a corridor.
But film director Tim Burton and his partner, actress Helena Bonham-Carter, are now getting closer to creating their dream home.
The celebrity couple, who met while producing the big-budget remake of Planet Of The Apes in 2001 and who have a son together, have asked Camden Council for permission to extend their conservatory further into the back garden at Steele’s Studios, a block of coveted apartments off Haverstock Hill.
A planning application has been submitted in Mr Burton’s name. Neighbours have been asked by the council’s planning department to make clear any objections to the project.
But the celebrity couple have already forged good relations with residents in the block. Ms Bonham-Carter was director of Steele’s Studios, a company set up in the late 1990s by neighbours to run a private car park at the building.
Mr Burton, whose film of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is out this summer, clinched his stake in the block in 2002. He spent £1.65 million to buy the property next to Ms Bonham-Carter’s apartment from chef Fumiyo Murakami.
The plans, drawn up by Temple Fortune-based architect Mark Beedle, have been posted on Camden Council’s website.