Camden is taking the Camden Film Quarter application to Planning Committee. Despite the community pushback, the breaches of planning codes, the fire safety risk of putting residents above a recycling centre and lack of a business case to justify the build of massive film studios in the heart of congested Kentish Town, Camden is taking the Camden Film Quarter application to Planning Committee.
The basement excavation alone represents 350,000 cubic meters of soil, that is 15 large 10-cubic metre HGV truckloads per day for 10 years!
Attend the committee. Planning committee is for 7pm. Join us for 6:30 ahead of the planning committee and to get your seats. Join us from at the Camden Town Hall, Judd Street, London WC1H 9JE. Look forward to seeing you there.
Email your councillors now. Make your voice count and your councillors accountable!
- Councillor Liam Martin-Lane Labour King's Cross Liam.Martin-Lane@camden.gov.uk
- Councillor Lauren Keiles Labour Primrose Hill ph.labour2026@gmail.com
- Councillor Marcus Boyland Labour Gospel Oak Marcus.Boyland@camden.gov.uk
- Councillor Juliette Graham Conservative Frognal juliette.graham@camden.gov.uk
- Councillor Janet Grauberg Liberal Democrat West Hampstead Janet.Grauberg@camden.gov.uk
- Councillor Adam Harrison Labour Bloomsbury adam.harrison@camden.gov.uk
- Councillor Samata Khatoon Labour St Pancras & Somers Town samata.khatoon@camden.gov.uk
- Councillor Izzy Lenga Labour South Hampstead Izzy.Lenga@Camden.gov.uk
- Councillor Jim Monahan Green Holborn & Covent Garden jim.monahan@camden.gov.uk
- Councillor Tom Simon Liberal Democrat Belsize tom.simon@camden.gov.uk
- Councillor Anna Wright Labour Highgate anna.wright@camden.gov.uk
- Councillor Hamza Chowdhury Green Holborn & Covent Garden
Feel free to consider the following note to councillors.
Subject: Camden Film Quarter – request for clarification before planning committee
Planning applications: 2025/4861/P and 2025/5084/L
Dear Councillor,
More than 1,400 local residents have signed a petition raising concerns about the scale of this proposal,
including the height of the towers, basement depths near the primary school, relocation of the recycling
facility into residential streets, and the proposal to place housing above the recycling facility.
Residents would welcome reassurance around issues of governance that:
• the planning authority’s discretion is not constrained by contractual provisions assuming a
“base case” development scenario;
• no contractual arrangements create pressure for planning permission to be granted within a
particular time frame;
• the council retains the ability to refuse or substantially modify the scheme without creating
financial exposure;
• redevelopment arrangements adequately protect public value.
Residents seek reassurance that councillors will determine this solely on planning merits and in the public interest.
Petition link: https://www.change.org/Stop_the_camden_film_quarter
Kind regards