The above pic is from a community outreach event hosted by Yoo on CFQ. Spoiler alert: there was no detail of the basements and a "promise" to work with the community.
CAMDEN FILM QUARTER planning committee is TODAY, June 15 from 6:15pm, Camden Town Hall, Judd Street, London.
Camden New Journal (paper edition) has coverage of the CFQ which I'm sharing below.
**SCENE ONE: WILL YOU BACK FILM QUARTER?**
by DAN CARRIER and TOM FOOT
**POLITICIANS** with barely four weeks’ experience at the Town Hall are being thrown into the deep end after being told to make a decision on a development which will change the face of Camden.
Just weeks after being elected, some new councillors will head straight into their first ever planning meeting on Monday night and find the giant “Film Quarter” plans for Kentish Town in front of them.
Hundreds of objections have been sparked by the plans for a radical transformation proposed for the Regis Road industrial estate, which include world-class movie-making studios and tower blocks reaching 23 storeys.
Supporters say it is a golden opportunity to bring big film industry business in and breathe new life into an underused part of the borough.
At the same mega-meeting, councillors must decide whether the amount of affordable housing can be reduced at another major development site, the O2 Centre in Finchley Road.
The outcome of the packed agenda will have major consequences for the future of two schemes which have stoked both anticipation and controversy.
It is due to be refereed by new planning chief Liam Martin-Lane, a Labour councillor chairing his first development control meeting.
Film’ site that’s not fit for purpose
**QUEEN’S CRESCENT NEIGHBOURHOOD FORUM**
**ALEXANDER ABBEY, MARION ANDREWS, SAM APPLEBY, WF BROMWICH, ALICE BROWN, MARIA FERNANDEZ, PATRICIA LANGTON, CAROLINE LEAF, DEBORAH MOGGACH, JULIA OERTLI, JEAN PRENTICE, MAX ROBINSON, BELINDA ROGERS, RUSSELL TICKNER, TOM YOUNG**
Queen’s Crescent Neighbourhood Forum held a public meeting about the Yoo Capital’s planning application in March 2026 which was attended by around 70 people.
The overwhelming opinion was against the proposed film studio building.
Those present from the film industry explained that the proposal would not be viable as film studios, as it would be too expensive and difficult to access by the many large vehicles required.
Filmmakers would likely choose Enfield as a preferred location.
It is almost certain that the proposed structure, if permitted, would not be used as film studios.
Yoo Capital have stated that they intend to sell the film studios when built, as the primary reason for their developing the site is to make money for global investors.
It is very likely that a future owner of the site would come back with an alternative use for the permitted building.
Camden’s planning committee, which is meeting Monday June 15 to determine the application, would be wise to consider what this would be.
The most likely scenario is that it would be used as a data centre. This is what is happening in Buckinghamshire, where Pinewood Studios is looking to change an existing planning permission for new films studios to build a £1billion data centre instead.
Data centres are the latest trend in global investment, not film studios.
Instead of proper planning for a resilient new neighbourhood in Kentish Town, Camden’s sale of public land (the recycling centre and housing repairs depot) unfortunately exposes us to the vagaries of global markets.
A data centre would obviously not be in the interests of Kentish Town. It would not offer local jobs and would use an excessive amount of power, water, and other resources.
The film studios proposal as it stands is very harmful to Kentish Town and the surrounding areas.
The planners say that the provision of affordable homes “outweigh” the harm and environmental impacts that will result. This is an illogical approach as it will not provide good living conditions or protect the environment.
The environmental impacts on residents of the QCNF area are multiple: overbearing mass and scale, cumulative impact with other large-scale developments in the area, local environmental impacts of construction, downgrading of council service provision, 144,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions driving climate breakdown.
We call on the planning committee to refuse this application and require the provision of a joined-up masterplan for Regis Road industrial area which prioritises the wellbeing of existing and future residents, including concrete proposals for a replacement housing repairs depot, upon which a quarter of Camden’s population depends.
Dangerous & unhealthy
**DEE SEARLE, NW5**
I AM shocked that Camden planning officers are recommending the council approves the application from Yoo Capital to relocate the existing recycling centre on Regis Road to the car park of Kentish Town police station and build homes on top to rehouse the 28 families who currently live above the council depot on Holmes Road.
This is unprecedented, dangerous and unhealthy. Residents will be subjected to seven-days-a-week noise and pollution, plus the threat to their lives from serious fires.
Just this week 100 firefighters were called to a huge fire at a recycling centre in Bermondsey that caused major rail disruption.
The recommendation will go to the council’s planning committee on Monday (June 15), when the committee will also decide on the horrendously dense and massive “Camden Film Quarter” development, which will alter the face of Kentish Town for the worst, for both current and future residents.
According to Westminster City Council, every year across the country hundreds of devastating fires occur in recycling and waste management facilities and vehicles.
Many of these are caused by discarded lithium-ion batteries.
Last December a lithium-ion battery exploded when a vehicle ran over it in the Islington waste transfer station, which had to be closed for three days. The volume of water needed to control the incident flooded the site, resulting in an extensive clean-up operation and damaging essential site equipment.
The North London Waste Authority has raised concerns about the Regis Road police station proposals. Nowhere else in Britain are families housed above recycling centres because it’s dangerous. This could be Camden’s Grenfell Tower.
The planning committee must reject this reckless proposal for the good of the residents and to protect the council from the consequences of this disaster waiting to happen.