Camden Council has approved plans for the Camden Film Quarter – a £1bn regeneration project to transform an industrial site in North London into a film and television studio site, which includes 485 new homes.
Plans for Camden Film Quarter were approved almost a decade after brownfield land in the Kentish Town area of London was first earmarked for redevelopment.
The Camden Film Quarter is being developed by Yoo Capital, the firm behind the Olympia Exhibition Centre and Sky Garden projects, as a hub for film and TV production in central London.
It has been designed by architects SPPARC and developed with operator Oxygen Studios, which is behind Longcross, Arborfield, and Fairbanks Studios, formerly BBC Elstree Centre.
The project is set to include 11 soundstages, which will run entirely by Oxygen Studios. The facilities are also set to accommodate more than 500 students from the National Film and Television School and the London Screen Academy.
It will include 30,000ft2 of production support space, including offices, workshops, fabrication areas, editing suites, wardrobe departments, special effects facilities, and sound recording studios, as well as 70,000ft2 of workspace for smaller businesses in the screen and associated industries.
Plans also include the construction of 485 homes, as well as new cycle lanes, pedestrian routes, and public parks, a community cinema, and an outdoor amphitheatre.
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