Fame Academy is filming in Highgate, north London

The application was due to go before Camden Council on Thursday but was withdrawn before the meeting.

Council planning officers had recommended permission to use the house again be refused, saying Witanhurst house had been damaged during filming.

Production company Endemol says it is continuing talks with the council.

Planning officers feared the "accumulative effect" of using the building for a third series, but Endemol has refuted the Grade II* listed building has been damaged during the two series it had been used.

A decision on whether a third series will actually go ahead has yet to be made, but Endemol denied it was now looking elsewhere to base the talent show.

But local residents had also complained about noise levels during the series, from helicopters landing in the grounds to loud music at all hours.

An Endemol spokesman said: "We have decided not to make the application that we were going to make today.

"But we will continue the dialogue with the council that has been going on for some time.

"We are not going to walk away from it."