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SPPARC proposals for Camden Film Quarter ‘challenge status quo’
London architecture studio SPPARC, in partnership with real estate investment fi rm Yoo Capital, has unveiled its emerging proposals for Camden Film Quarter, a major mixed-use district set to feature the inner city’s fi rst purpose built fi lm studio campus. Responding to “booming demand” from the global screen industry for production space in the heart of London, the 23-acre neighbourhood in Kentish Town will house a cluster of world-class studios and sound stages. These will be supported by post-production suites, editing facilities, and an innovative collaboration space for creative companies, “seeking to reduce production times while putting Camden on the map as a global centre for fi lm and the creative industries,” said SPPARC. “Challenging the status quo of fi lm studios as industrial sheds in remote locations, Camden Film Quarter is designed as a walkable, mixed-use neighbourhood for major media productions, the creative industries, local communities, and visitors alike.” Cutting- edge, combinable sound insulated stages that are designed to stack over each other will allow the fi lm studio campus to sit adjacent to over 1,000 new homes of mixed tenure – including 50% affordable homes on the Yoo Capital-controlled land – as well as amenities such as galleries, shops, restaurants and bars, leisure and community spaces, and a series of connected new public open spaces with new tree planting. It will create a pedestrian high-line route around the proposed buildings, stitching the currently unconnected site into the surrounding neighbourhood. To open doors into the industry for young people, including local talent, facilities for two fi lm and television schools will sit within an onsite education hub facing a new park.
Camden Film Quarter will open up a previously underutilised, poorly accessible site north of Regis Road, introducing a network of public pedestrian and cycling routes as well as parks and green spaces. The masterplan vision includes a brand new
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pedestrian and cycle bridge over the railway line that will place Kentish Town within a fi ve minutes’ walk of Hampstead Heath for the fi rst time. SPPARC said: “Throughout the evolution of the masterplan design, buildings have been carefully designed to acknowledge the local area’s rich diversity of architecture, referencing its historic industries and former railway goodsyard where the site is located. “Unusually for fi lm studios, the scheme’s design is inspired by civic architecture. It features a distinctive masonry facade with origami-style outdents that react in reverse to the indent sound cushioning on the interiors of six upper- level sound stages, key to the productions that will take place within.” Aiming to “supercharge” its creative economy and create thousands of jobs, the proposals “build on Camden’s long history as an international cultural powerhouse,” the architects said. “Camden is already one of London’s most popular
fi lming destinations, with 900 fi lm related companies in the area. The borough is connected by three major rail termini and seven London Underground lines, putting it within the reach of millions.” “Unlike its contemporaries, Camden Film Quarter seeks to actively welcome the local community and visitors. It does so through a wide range of public facing spaces including the cafes and restaurants that front the high line and a richly-planted roof garden above glazed lanterns that support the functions of the fi lm industry below.”
The Camden Film Quarter masterplan vision was adopted by Camden Council as part of the Regis Road Area Guidance in March 2025. A planning application is expected later this year. SPPARC and Yoo Capital are collaborators on the ongoing £1.3bn regeneration of the Olympia exhibition centre, as well as the revival of the West End’s Saville Theatre, which secured planning approval in April 2025.
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