SPPARC-designed project includes nearly 500 homes
Yoo Capital has submitted plans for its £1bn mixed-use Camden Film Quarter scheme.
The developer purchased the land in north London in April 2023 on a subject to planning basis, meaning it will own the land if and when permission is approved.
Concept images were unveiled in the autumn but it has now submitted its proposals to Camden council, describing its plan for a new neighbourhood centred around film production and creative industries.
The scheme includes sound stages, post-production suites, editing rooms and collaboration space for creative companies.
The 3.14ha site is bordered by railway lines to the north and west and is located just west of Kentish Town Road in the Regis Road Growth Area.
It currently comprises a series of industrial buildings and warehouses, as well as the Kentish Town Police Station, the Regis Road Recycling Centre, the Camden Vehicle Pound and the Holmes Road Depot.
According to the applicant, Camden Film Quarter has been designed “to integrate into the established neighbourhood whilst transforming the currently unconnected and underutilised industrial park”.
Yoo Capital’s plans, which have been drawn up by SPPARC as masterplanner and lead architect, would mean the demolition of many of the existing structures, including partial demolition and change of use for the grade II listed police station.
Plans for phases
Phase 1a: public library, public realm improvements, two residential buildings, commercial elements and an energy centre.
Phase 1b: film production building, workspaces, education uses, further commercial elements.
Phase 2a: three residential buildings, one of which will have some commercial elements and a “community meeting place”, while another will support film production.
Phase 2b: an education building and a cinema, as well as broader amenity, infrastructure and public realm works.
As well as buildings for the film industry, the scheme will include five residential buildings with 485 homes, of which 50% will be affordable. Housing association Places for People is a residential partner on the scheme, while Broadway Malyan is its residential architect. The tallest residential block would run up to 29 storeys.
The plans would see 25 homes over the existing Holmes Road depot building relocated into a new building on Holmes Road. The Regis Road Recycling Centre would also be moved to a new purpose-built facility.
In planning documents, the developer said that during three rounds of consultation, 526 people had attended its events in the autumn.
Others working on the scheme include planning and heritage consultant Montagu Evans, structural engineer Thornton Tomasetti and landscape architect Spacehub.
SPPARC and Yoo Capital are also working together on the £1.3 billion redevelopment of Olympia and the Saville Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue, which secured planning approval in April.
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