London architecture studio SPPARC, in partnership with real estate investment firm Yoo Capital, has unveiled its emerging proposals for Camden Film Quarter, a major mixed-use district set to feature the inner city’s first purpose-built film studio campus.

Responding to booming demand from the global screen industry for production space in the heart of London, the 23-acre neighbourhood in Kentish Town will house a cluster of world-class studios and sound stages. These will be supported by post-production suites, editing facilities, and innovative collaboration space for creative companies, seeking to reduce production times while putting Camden on the map as a global centre for film and the creative industries.

Challenging the status quo of film studios as industrial sheds in remote locations, Camden Film Quarter is designed as a walkable, mixed-use neighbourhood for major media productions, the creative industries, local communities, and visitors alike. Cutting-edge, combinable sound-insulated stages that are designed to stack over each other will allow the film studio campus to sit adjacent to over 1,000 new homes of mixed tenure – including 50% affordable homes on the Yoo Capital-controlled land – as well as amenities such as galleries, shops, restaurants and bars, leisure and community spaces, and a series of connected new public open spaces with new tree planting. It will create a pedestrian high-line route around the proposed buildings, stitching the currently unconnected site into the surrounding neighbourhood.

To open doors into the industry for young people, including local talent, facilities for two film and television schools will sit within an on-site education hub facing a new park.

Camden Film Quarter will open up a previously underutilised, poorly accessible site north of Regis Road, introducing a network of public pedestrian and cycling routes as well as parks and green spaces. The masterplan vision includes a brand-new pedestrian and cycle bridge over the railway line that will place Kentish Town within a five minutes’ walk of Hampstead Heath for the first time.

Throughout the evolution of the masterplan design, buildings have been carefully designed to acknowledge the local area’s rich diversity of architecture, referencing its historic industries and former railway goodsyard where the site is located.

Unusually for film studios, the scheme’s design is inspired by civic architecture. It features a distinctive masonry façade with origami-style outdents that react in reverse to the indent sound cushioning on the interiors of six upper-level sound stages, key to the productions that will take place within.

Aiming to supercharge its creative economy and create thousands of jobs, the proposals build on Camden’s long history as an international cultural powerhouse. Camden is already one of London’s most popular filming destinations, with no less than 900 film-related companies operating in the area. The borough is connected by three major rail termini and seven London Underground lines, putting it in the reach of millions.

Once delivered, Camden Film Quarter will rival Wildflower Studios, one of the only other vertical media production facilities in the world, located in New York and backed by Robert De Niro. It will benefit from dynamic spaces that can be easily adjusted to cater to a wide variety of production requirements across film, television and digital media.

Unlike its contemporaries, Camden Film Quarter seeks to actively welcome the local community and visitors. It does so through a wide range of public-facing spaces including the cafes and restaurants that front the high line and a richly-planted roof garden above glazed lanterns that support the functions of the film industry below.

Trevor Morriss, Principal at SPPARC, said: “Continuing Kentish Town’s legacy as London’s pre-eminent destination for the creative industries, Camden Film Quarter is the film and television campus the capital city has long been waiting for.

“Innovating for the industry with its stacked studios, and as the first of its kind in Europe and one of only a handful in the world, our masterplan seeks to re-imagine what film studios can look like. Conceived as inclusive civic buildings, our ambition is to deliver a vibrant, open neighbourhood that brings creative industries together with local communities by blending production space with living, education, leisure and high-quality public realm.”

The Camden Film Quarter masterplan vision was adopted by Camden Council as part of the Regis Road Area Guidance in March 2025. A planning application is expected later this year.

SPPARC and Yoo Capital are collaborators on the ongoing £1.3 billion regeneration of the Olympia exhibition centre, as well as the revival of the West End’s Saville Theatre, which secured planning approval in April 2025.