MURPHY’S YARD
The planning application for the Murphy site has been withdrawn. The proposed scheme had many problems: over-bearing, high-rise development impacting of the east side of the QCNF forum area, including Oak Village, Meru Close, Hemingway Close, Kiln Place, Cressfield Close and Kentish Town City Farm. The extra traffic on Mansfield Road resulting from scheme would have been terrible.
REGIS ROAD INDUSTRIAL AREA
The developers of the site, together with Camden’s planners, published proposed framework for development of the site in early November 2024. The consultation is live and can be accessed here.
It is very vague, as the 3-d views don’t show the top of the towers, but the DRAFT planning framework, which can be downloaded here, appears to propose high rise development potentially higher than 16 storeys.
WEST KENTISH TOWN ESTATE
It is expected that Camden Council will submit their planning application for the redevelopment of West Kentish Town Estate in Spring 2025. The current application to approve the scope of the Environmental Impact Assessment describes the proposal as providing:
“up to approximately 898 dwellings (with a mix of affordable and market housing) and ancillary commercial uses in buildings ranging from 4 to 14 storeys in a variety of different housing typologies including flats and maisonettes alongside new routes, open space, play space, hard and soft landscaping and other associated works.”
BACTON ESTATE REDEVELOPMENT
Camden delivered the 1st phase of the Bacton Estate redevelopment themselves with 67 high quality homes. However, the Council has since entered into a ‘private development agreement’ with developer Mount Anvil, which will result in an extra 157 private homes for sale. If this goes ahead 74% of the homes on the original Bacton Low-rise site will be high-cost flats for private sale. There were originally 99 homes on the site; Camden propose to increase it to 447, an increase of 450%.
The developer has recently submitted a planning application for an Environmental Impact Assessment ‘Scoping Opinion’, details of which can be seen here.
QCNF’s submission to the EIA Scoping Opinion is here:
WENDLING ESTATE REDEVELOPMENT
Camden Council plans to knock down the existing 241 homes and rebuild with 650-750 homes. This was approved by residents of the estate in a ballot. The danger is that Camden may go down the private development route, which could result in the number of homes increasing to 1000, if it increases in a similar proportion as at Bacton.
The existing homes could be refurbished, with additional council homes added to the estate as the proposal developed by Peter Barber Architects.
CAMDEN GOODS YARD
The development of Camden Goods Yard following demolition of Morrisons supermarket is under construction. The site is being massively overdeveloped and is likely to cause problems in the future.