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Camden Film Quarter, Kentish Town, London

15 November 2025

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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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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Previously on e-architect:

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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Previously on e-architect:

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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