Camden Cutting

Previously you told us

• Prioritise genuinely affordable good-quality housing for the local community
• Streets are important sites of community activity that should be pleasant and safe environments  
• Ensure that streets have active frontages with shops, windows and front doors so that they feel welcoming and safe
• Green spaces should be prioritised and looked after 
• New buildings over the Euston Station tracks shouldn’t negatively impact on nearby heritage assets or reduce openness and light. 
• Properly consult local residents on proposals for new housing

Image: Camden Cutting illustrative masterplan

Our proposal 

• Around 700 new homes to be developed above the tracks (reduced from 1,400 in EAP 2015 due to significant technical constraints and funding issues)
• Potential development of the railway siding adjacent to Mornington Terrace for new homes, working with residents to establish appropriate scale, massing and detailed appearance 
• Building heights should be restricted to c. 23 metres (seven residential storeys) adjacent to Park Village East, and to c. 33-40 metres (10-12 residential storeys) adjacent to the railway. 
• Development proposals in the south of the Cutting should be knitted together with the adjoining Regent’s Park Estate
• Development should be sensitive to historic context and heritage assets 
• Substantial new open space to be provided in the southern half of the cutting, along with improved pedestrian and cycle links to reconnect communities
• Camden will work with partners to overcome the challenging engineering and funding constraints  which are currently making the delivery of a larger open space in the northern part of the Cutting (identified in EAP 2015) very difficult