WEST KENTISH TOWN ESTATE
Camden Council submitted their planning application for the redevelopment of West Kentish Town Estate on 1st July 2025. The reference number is 2025/2667/P.
Planning permission is being sought for the whole masterplan (Outline planning application for 11 blocks), with a Detailed planning application for the first 2 blocks. If approved the whole masterplan would get the go-ahead.
The scheme has many problems: the floor space is quadrupled and the height increased from 3-4 storeys to up 15/16 storeys (51m), and it does not relate to the urban fabric of Kentish Town. See the following website for more information: https://westkentishtown.org/2025/07/11/the-west-kentish-town-estate-planning-application-has-finally-arrived/
Camden Council put on an exhibition at 104a Queen’s Crescent on 12th July. It was very difficult to get any sense of the overall scale of the development as can be seen below. There were only 5 boards for a £0.6bn development, and no 3-d model, which is pitiful. Camden have shown a model at previous consultations, but for some reason have not updated it. We have asked them to do this, and they agreed to do so.
There is very little information about the masterplan in the planning application documents. All there is are these crude block plans, with no sections through the blocks and the neighbouring existing buildings. It is therefore not possible to understand the scale of the development.
Camden are planning on digging up the existing Weedington Road and rebuilding it in the route shown by the blue arrows below. This is a huge waste of public money and creates a dangerous tight bend around Hawkridge Tower. It does not make a clearly legible street.
There have been several objections made by local groups, which you can see here:
QUEEN’S CRESCENT NEIGHBOURHOOD FORUM https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CNVfZRDG4DpqS4tyb1LYdsL4PpDSTowO/view?usp=sharing
KENTISH TOWN NEIGHBOURHOOD FORUM https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i70TNzbDh47cNBM38wC-4Ceif0tbbuHW/view?usp=sharing
WEST KENTISH TOWN CAAC https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CzktXaZhFsAaFZtA9IDbqF4eitxcRVD5/view?usp=sharing
GROUP OF RESIDENTS https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hrg6m3msqxLNFWyvCt-zw-wSau5JL5JB/view?usp=sharing
FRIENDS OF QUEEN’S CRESCENT https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JbB_qMbmiKe3qiJTQSCAfC5flIQV7Z-8/view?usp=sharing
THE HEATH AND HAMPSTEAD SOCIETY https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LYKEJ28TajiWDV0HUBgQy6nmmL7vRxby/view?usp=sharing
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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 75% 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 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:
Bacton Towers Action is the campaign group co-ordinating a community response to the Council’s proposals. See their website here: https://bactontowersaction.org.
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WENDLING AND ST. STEPHEN’S CLOSE
Camden’s proposal to knock down the existing 241 homes and rebuild with 650-750 homes was approved by residents of the estate in a ballot in 2021. In August 2025 Camden Council announced that it intends to “partner with a private development organisation” to redevelop the estate. They are planning to get Cabinet approval for this Joint Venture early 2026.
The existing homes could be refurbished, with additional council homes added to the estate as the proposal developed by Peter Barber Architects.
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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.
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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 new planning framework for the Kentish Town was agreed in
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.
JUNIPER CRESCENT
The Housing Association that owns this estate has applied for planning permission to demolish it and rebuild with? homes. This is a scandal as it was only built 28 years ago, see here. The scheme won awards at the time.
The planning application ref number is
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. Berkley Homes has recently applied to reduce the number of affordable homes they need to provide as part of the scheme.