Camden Film Quarter, close to Kentish Town underground and Thameslink stations, will also include production and post production facilities, creative workspace, specialist education, public parks and community infrastructure in a single integrated masterplan.
The project aims to create an 'education to employment pathway', with facilities for more than 500 learners through the National Film and Television School and London Screen Academy, and will directly employ 3,960 people.
The project has been developed alongside a team of leading partners including SPPARC (masterplan, studios and mixed-use design), Places for People and Broadway Malyan (housing), Oxygen Studios (studio operations), Montagu Evans (planning, historic environment and townscape), Spacehub (landscape architecture), Momentum Transport Consultancy (transport), Atelier Ten (sustainability) and a wider team of specialist consultants.
Trevor Morriss, principal at SPPARC, said, 鈥淐amden Film Quarter reimagines what a modern urban district can be. Rather than separating industry, education, housing and public life, the masterplan brings them together in a highly connected and walkable neighbourhood.
"The design opens up a previously inaccessible industrial estate, creates new parks and public spaces, improves connections across the area and establishes a distinctive new destination for Camden. It is a place designed around people, creativity and long-term sustainability.鈥�
Andrew Usher, group managing director of developments at Places for People, said: "Camden Film Quarter is set to become an important new neighbourhood for north London and the next chapter in PfP's placemaking journey. London is facing a housing crisis that demands bold action and genuine commitment, and we believe this development is exactly the kind of response the capital needs. Delivering 485 high-quality homes, with 50% designated as affordable, will make a real and positive difference to people's lives and help address the acute shortage of genuinely affordable housing in inner London.鈥�
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