Camden have published a document intended to enable Yoo Capital’s plans for the Regis Road Industrial Area. The masterplan shown at the start of the document ignores the fact UPS do not intend to sell their depot and Big Yellow won an appeal against Camden due to the lack of a masterplan:
Later in the document is a plan that reflects reality, with UPS staying put for the foreseeable future:
The proposed residential area in the western half of the Regis Road site is owned by Yoo Capital (light green in the diagram below) and Joseph Homes (dark green). As this will need to include proposals for the “reprovision of a recycling centre and existing homes” within the site, and the “suitable reprovision of depot services and the car pound” elsewhere, it is hard to see what is in it for Yoo Capital. To provide 50% affordable housing the towers are going to have be very tall. If achievable, the proposal will include little employment space, let alone TV studios.
The scheme has the following defects:
- Regis Road remains pretty much as it is
- the proposed housing is in high-rise blocks that will provide homes unable to support a good quality of life, out of scale with the area (see below)
- tall buildings will overshadow existing homes at Cressfield and Woodyard and Arctic Street
- a pedestrian route still shown going through Kentish Town City Farm when this has been ruled out by the farm
- loss of the recently refurbished depot and disruption to services and lack of clarity about replacement depot
Above: tall residential block opposite the French School.
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