Camley Street Regeneration

January 2025 - November 2025

We supported Ballymore and London Borough of Camden to curate an engagement programme for a mixed use development on Camley Street that would ensure local people could give feedback and influence the designs, activation, employment opportunities, stewardship, community funding and more. The engagement activities were not just limited to the physical designs support from the design team but also looked at capturing stories of Camley Street and thinking about how local people can shape the ongoing programming and managing of spaces going forward.

About the project

Following a two year period of Council-led engagement to shape a vision for Camley Street, our programme focused on how the local community could best inform how to make this vision real. Through one-to-ones, walk and talks, tag-ons at existing events, pop-ups in key locations, design drop-ins and a street festival we involved over 1280 people in thinking about the future of Camley Street. We specifically wanted to focus on engaging young people, as the borough has a young demographic and historically this age group is often excluded from place making. With support from the design team and working with some exceptional partners, including In Her Place and Deaf Architecture Front, some great and impactful opportunities were created. We used school workshops, workshops in a youth centre and specific creative activities at all of our events to encourage families to attend. Alongside this we wrote and delivered a dedicated Community Story Tellers programme where 8 young people were recruited to capture their and their peers' stories of Camley Street. This work has culminated in a planning application submission and we are excited to see people’s ideas realised.