Camden Film Quarter, Kentish Town, London
16 June 2026
SPPARC Gets Green Light From Camden Council For £1 Billion Camden Film Quarter, Creating One Of Europe’s Most Significant Creative Industry Districts
SPPARC has secured planning permission from Camden Council for its Camden Film Quarter masterplan, marking a major milestone for the project.
Camden Film Quarter – Masterplan Vision Studio Building:
image : SPPARC
Architect: SPPARC
Location: Kentish Town, Camden, London, England.
LONDON, 16 JUNE 2026: Designed on behalf of real estate investment firm Yoo Capital, the SPPARC designed Camden Film Quarter is a landmark £1 billion creative-led regeneration project that will create one of the UK’s most significant film and television production campuses and establish a new global destination for the creative industries in the heart of London.
Located in Kentish Town, Camden Film Quarter brings together 11 purpose-built sound stages, production and post-production facilities, creative workspace, specialist education, new homes including 50% affordable housing, public parks and community infrastructure in a single integrated masterplan.
The project is the first development of its kind in the world, combining world-class film and television production facilities with dedicated screen industry education, affordable housing, creative employment space and major new public realm at this scale.
Designed as a complete creative ecosystem, Camden Film Quarter creates a direct pathway from education to employment, bringing together the National Film and Television School, London Screen Academy, creative businesses, production companies and future talent within one connected neighbourhood.
Through SPPARC’s innovative architectural approach, the studios are arranged vertically – unlike conventional film production layouts – to optimise land use while remaining closely connected to the site’s context and heritage, including the long-term conservation and reuse of the Grade II-listed Kentish Town Police Station.
Envisioned as a hub for creatives, the local community and visitors, with no hierarchy between uses, the scheme opens up a previously underutilised yet centrally located site through a network of new pedestrian and cycle routes.
The design reinterprets Kentish Town’s industrial heritage and the character of its surrounding conservation areas through a contemporary architectural language. Brick is used as the principal material, grounding the architecture in Camden’s material tradition, while articulated brickwork introduces depth, rhythm and texture, bringing richness and tactility to the built form.
Together, the scheme sets out a new model for film studio design and sets the benchmark for sustainable studio space, the net-zero neighbourhood will be anchored by an energy centre providing low-carbon power to homes and creative facilities.
The approved proposals will deliver:
• 11 state-of-the-art purpose-built sound stages operated by Oxygen Studios.
• 485 new homes, including 243 affordable homes delivered in partnership with Places for People.
• Approximately 3,960 direct operational jobs and 5,155 net additional jobs overall.
• More than 100,000 sq ft of creative, production and employment space.
• Facilities for more than 500 learners through the National Film and Television School and London Screen Academy.
• Approximately 1.1 hectares (2.8 acres) of publicly accessible open space.
• 301 new trees and approximately 190% Biodiversity Net Gain.
• A new enclosed Reuse and Recycling Centre designed to deliver safer, cleaner and more efficient waste and recycling services for Camden.
Camden Film Quarter has been developed by Yoo Capital 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), Spacehub (landscape architecture), Momentum Transport Consultancy (transport), Atelier Ten (sustainability) and a wider team of specialist consultants.
The project represents a new model for urban regeneration, combining live, learn, work and play within a one integrated neighbourhood, with ambitions to position Camden as a global hub for film and TV production. The approval marks a major milestone for the Regis Road Growth Area, reinforcing London’s status as a leading centre for the creative industries while delivering lasting local benefits.
Trevor Morriss, Principal at SPPARC, said: “Camden 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.
The Camden Film Studio building is the centrepiece of the proposed development, drawing direct inspiration from the character and industrial heritage of Kentish Town, ensuring that while it is distinctive, it remains firmly rooted in its local context.
The creative activity within the studio buildings is entirely consistent with Camden’s long-standing reputation for culture, innovation and production.
The stacked studio arrangement is a new typology for London. This approach creates the space to deliver a complete neighbourhood that includes housing, education and a rigorous green landscape rather than a single-use enclave”.
Lloyd Lee, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Yoo Capital, adds: “Camden Film Quarter is much more than a film studio development. It is a complete creative ecosystem that brings together production, education, employment, homes, culture and public space within a single integrated vision.
At a time when the UK screen sector requires new infrastructure to remain globally competitive, Camden Film Quarter demonstrates how the creative industries can act as a catalyst for transformational regeneration. By creating a place where people can learn, create, work, live and play, we are delivering a new model for urban communities and one of the most significant creative industry districts anywhere in Europe.
The project reflects our belief that development should be both fiscally and socially responsible. The studios provide the economic engine that helps deliver affordable homes, education, public space, community infrastructure and long-term opportunities for local people.
We are grateful to Camden Council, local residents, businesses, community organisations and our partners who have helped shape this vision over many years.”
Simon Lear, Managing Director of Camden Film Quarter, said: “Today’s decision reflects years of collaboration, consultation and design development. Camden Film Quarter has evolved through extensive engagement with residents, businesses, community groups, schools, elected members and officers to ensure it responds to the aspirations of the Regis Road Growth Area.
Alongside world-class creative industry facilities, the project will deliver 485 homes, including 243 affordable homes, significant new public open space, education facilities supporting more than 500 learners, new jobs and long-term investment into Kentish Town.
We look forward to continuing to work with local stakeholders as the project progresses.”
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Yoo Capital submits detailed planning application for SPPARC-designed Camden Film Quarter: London’s first purpose-built urban film studio campus
Design: SPPARC
Location: Kentish Town, Camden, North London, UK
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15 November 2025
Camden Film Quarter Planning Application News
LONDON, 14 NOVEMBER 2025: Yoo Capital has submitted a detailed application to Camden Council for Camden Film Quarter (CFQ), a £1 billion creative-led regeneration that will establish London’s first purpose-built, film-focused urban neighbourhood and set a new global benchmark for sustainable studio design.
Led by real-estate investment firm Yoo Capital, CFQ will transform under-used industrial land in Kentish Town into a vibrant, mixed-use district where film production, new homes and education coexist. The detailed application covers Yoo Capital–controlled land, which will deliver around 500 new homes (50 % affordable), 11 state-of-the-art film and television studios, new creative workspaces, public parks, and education facilities in partnership with the National Film & Television School (NFTS) and the London Screen Academy (LSA) – two of the UK’s leading creative education institutions.
The studios, designed by Camden-based architecture practice SPPARC and to be managed and operated by Oxygen Studios, introduce a pioneering vertical-studio model that allows production stages to stack efficiently, maximising limited urban land while creating an inspiring environment for film, television, and digital-content production.
Trevor Morriss, Principal at SPPARC, said: “The submission of the detailed planning application for Camden Film Quarter marks a defining milestone in realising the inner-city film studio district that London deserves – a place where innovative, world-class creative studios are woven into the fabric of a wider neighbourhood. Our vision is the product of long-term, close collaboration with Camden Council and a wide range of local stakeholders, where imagination and ambition has shaped a masterplan designed to nurture creativity and foster community, to demonstrate how culture, enterprise, and urban life can thrive together as a successful whole. We look forward to continuing to work closely with the council and our partners to bring that vision to life.”
Lloyd Lee, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Yoo Capital, said:
“Camden Film Quarter represents a bold new chapter for London’s creative industries – a place where storytelling, innovation, and community come together. As the screen sector evolves, London needs infrastructure that matches its creative ambition. Located in the heart of the city, Camden Film Quarter reimagines what a modern studio can be – an open, connected neighbourhood built for collaboration, education, and opportunity. By uniting world-class studios, affordable homes, and public spaces, we’re creating a place that will inspire the next generation and keep London at the forefront of the global film and television economy.”
Andrew Usher, Group Managing Director of Developments at Places for People said: “Camden Film Quarter is set to become a landmark development for London and the next chapter in PfP’s placemaking journey. This flagship scheme builds on the success of our transformational projects across the UK such as Park Hill in Sheffield, Poundbury and EastWick & Sweetwater at the Olympic Park. This project is a bold vision for inclusive regeneration and long-term social value in the heart of London and something we are proud to be shaping.”
Beyond the studios, CFQ will establish a new kind of neighbourhood – a place where creative professionals can live, work and learn side by side. Working in partnership with Places for People, the UK’s leading social enterprise developer, CFQ will deliver a diverse range of homes designed for long-term affordability, community stewardship and sustainable living.
Sustainability and adaptability underpin every aspect of the design. The masterplan aims to create a net-zero carbon neighbourhood, integrating circular-economy construction principles and delivering over a hectare of new public realm and green space. The studio buildings are engineered for the next generation of production, incorporating flexibility for virtual and immersive technologies to ensure continued relevance as the global screen industry evolves.
Camden Film Quarter will create thousands of jobs across production, education, and the wider supply chain, while establishing new training pathways that open the creative industries to local and international talent.
Once complete, CFQ will stand as London’s most advanced urban production campus, rivalling world-leading vertical studios such as New York’s Wildflower Studios and reaffirming the capital’s role as the global home of creativity and innovation.
Yoo Capital’s submission marks a major step forward in delivering a new kind of creative neighbourhood for London – one that will anchor the city’s global leadership in film, television, and digital media.
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25 September 2025
SPPARC unveils designs for Camden Film Quarter, London’s first inner-city film studio campus
Architect: SPPARC
Location: Kentish Town, Camden, London, England, United Kingdom
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Camden Film Quarter in North London
LONDON, SEPTEMBER 2025 – London architecture studio SPPARC, in partnership with real estate investment firm Yoo Capital, has unveiled its emerging proposals for Camden Film Quarter, a major mixed-use district set to feature the inner city’s first purpose-built film 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 innovative collaboration space for creative companies, seeking to reduce production times while putting Camden on the map as a global centre for film and the creative industries.
Challenging the status quo of film 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 film 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 film and television schools will sit within an on-site 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 pedestrian and cycle bridge over the railway line that will place Kentish Town within a five minutes’ walk of Hampstead Heath for the first time.
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 film studios, the scheme’s design is inspired by civic architecture. It features a distinctive masonry façade 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. Camden is already one of London’s most popular filming destinations, with no less than 900 film-related companies operating in the area. The borough is connected by three major rail termini and seven London Underground lines, putting it in the reach of millions.
Once delivered, Camden Film Quarter will rival Wildflower Studios, one of the only other vertical media production facilities in the world, located in New York and backed by Robert De Niro. It will benefit from dynamic spaces that can be easily adjusted to cater to a wide variety of production requirements across film, television and digital media.
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 film industry below.
Trevor Morriss, Principal at SPPARC, said: “Continuing Kentish Town’s legacy as London’s pre-eminent destination for the creative industries, Camden Film Quarter is the film and television campus the capital city has long been waiting for.
“Innovating for the industry with its stacked studios, and as the first of its kind in Europe and one of only a handful in the world, our masterplan seeks to re-imagine what film studios can look like. Conceived as inclusive civic buildings, our ambition is to deliver a vibrant, open neighbourhood that brings creative industries together with local communities by blending production space with living, education, leisure and high-quality public realm.”
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 £1.3 billion 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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16 April 2024
Design: SPPARC
Location: Kentish Town, Camden, London, England
Camden Film Quarter, North London
SPPARC appointed by Yoo Capital for Camden Film Quarter – a proposed mixed-use masterplan in Camden’s Kentish Town
SPPARC, the London-based architecture studio co-designing Olympia and behind the redevelopment of Borough Yards, has announced its appointment by real estate investment firm Yoo Capital as masterplanner architect for a new mixed-use neighbourhood in Camden’s Kentish Town, anchored by a world class film quarter.
The masterplan vision for Camden Film Quarter will focus on the delivery of homes for local people, of which 50% will be affordable, and the creation of employment opportunities for creative industries, and in a boost for the UK’s thriving film industry, will include inner London’s first significant film studio campus. This responds to an immediate need from the UK’s globally-renowned TV and film sector for best-in-class sound stages and live sets in the city centre.
On behalf of Yoo Capital, SPPARC’s design spans the site bordered by a railway line to the north and west, and Regis Road to the south – currently only accessible from Kentish Town Road. The masterplan will transform an isolated industrial area currently cut off from the surrounding context into a highly sustainable and vibrant neighbourhood linked by a series of green walkable routes.
Drawing on its expertise in delivering successful projects that are anchored by a curiosity in neighbourhood history, arts and culture, and in line with Camden Council’s wider Kentish Town Framework, SPPARC’s designs will deliver employment opportunities for the creative industries, new homes, and cultural and community facilities.
SPPARC’s masterplanning prowess includes the reinvention of a large area next to Borough Market including a series of Victorian railway arches linking to London Bridge station. The scheme has reinstated the area’s lost medieval street pattern to create Borough Yards, a £300 million mixed-use retail, leisure, commercial and cultural destination recognised in 2023 by the RIBA Awards and the recipient of a Planning Award for Design Excellence.
Trevor Morriss, Principal at SPPARC, said: “Together with Yoo Capital, we are excited to collaborate with Camden Council and the local community to ensure the masterplan for Camden Film Quarter reflects our shared vision for a vibrant new mixed-use district in the heart of Kentish Town, featuring London’s first significant film complex.
“Our goal is to deliver on the Council’s aspirations for a highly sustainable neighbourhood that will support and enrich the local area. Through stakeholder engagement and in listening to community views, the masterplan we put forward will learn from and pay homage to Kentish Town’s rich culture to inspire and influence a place that has its own distinct identity informed by historical context, while supporting one of the UK’s most successful creative industries.”
Lloyd Lee, Managing Partner at Yoo Capital, said: “We are excited to be collaborating with SPPARC once more on our most ambitious project to date, Camden Film Quarter. We have begun working closely with Camden Council and local stakeholders, including residents, neighbouring businesses and a cadre of esteemed experts, to outline a masterplan vision that will begin the path to Camden being one of the centrepieces of the UK’s drive to be the world’s foremost leader in the creation, production and distribution of great film and television.
“We chose SPPARC for their sensitive and authentic design language. They are gifted in their ability to create true local landmarks: places that inspire both locally and globally. We look forward to bringing our vision to life through SPPARC.”
Camden Film Quarter, Kentish Town, London – Building Information
Camden-based architects SPPARC appointed by Yoo Capital to design masterplan vision for Camden Film Quarter, a vibrant new mixed-use film and creative district in Kentish Town anchored by London’s first significant film studio campus
Vision for the net zero neighbourhood to include employment space, residential (delivering 50% affordable homes), cultural and education spaces that support and build on the area’s creative community
The announcement marks SPPARC’s latest collaboration with Yoo Capital, with the pair working together at Olympia
Client: Yoo Capital – https://yoocapital.com/
Architects: SPPARC – https://spparcstudio.com/
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