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The biggest thing to hit the borough since the invention of the joss stick, the new Camden Film Quarter has just been given the go-ahead by the council. Planning permission for the massive new movie hub has been approved and ‘Canal-ywood’ – our working title – is a go.
Real estate investment firm Yoo Capital (the folk behind west London’s Olympia) £1bn masterplan will create a new neighbourhood in NW1 dedicated to the big and small screens.
Construction is scheduled to start in 2027, with the first phase completing from 2030 onwards.
Camden Film Quarter will bring together studio space for TV and film productions, educational partnerships with the National Film and Television School and the London Screen Academy, workshop spaces, new housing, including the affordable kind, and new public parts. There’ll be studio tours for visitors, too.
‘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,’ says Simon Lear, the managing director of Camden Film Quarter.
Adds Yoo Capital’s managing partner Lloyd Lee: ‘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.’
The promise, in other words, is for a massive hub for Londoners to live, breathe and create.
The borough is already thriving on screen. It’s featured regularly as a movie location in recent years, including Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Steve McQueen’s Blitz, Paddington 3, and, of course, Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black.
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