HOLBORN VISION AND URBAN STRATEGY HOLBORN VISION AND URBAN STRATEGY INTRODUCTION WHAT IS THE VISION AND URBAN STRATEGY? Camden Council’s Regeneration and Place Team have The Vision and Urban Strategy will not directly deliver We are seeking to work with our partners - including prepared a draft Vision and Urban Strategy for Holborn development, but will guide proposed development local residents, the business community, including the to help coordinate development and investment in the in the area. It is the Council’s intention that the BeeMidTown & Hatton Garden Business Improvement area of focus shown below. final version of this document will be adopted as Districts, landowners, developers and others - to a supplementary planning document (SPD). The achieve our collective ambitions for the area. We are running a public consultation on the draft document will therefore have material weight in Vision and Urban Strategy until 3 July 2019. The The Hoborn Vision and Urban Strategy is available determining planning applications within the area. following boards provide a summary of the document. online at: www.camden.gov.uk/holbornvision AREA OF FOCUS RUSSELL SQUARE FARRINGDON CHANCERY LANE HOLBORN TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD TOTTENHAM COURT HOLBORN GROWTH AREA ROAD GROWTH AREA HAVE YOUR SAY This is the main opportunity to give us your views on Come along to our Fill in our online draft Vision and Urban Strategy and we want your drop-in sessions questionnaire input to help us shape the future of this area. @ Following the consultation, we will analyse the Come along and talk to members of the Regeneration The engagement material and questionnaire can be responses. The feedback will help inform the further and Place Team at one of our drop in sessions at: viewed and completed online by visiting: development of the document. A consultation report Holborn Library 32-38 Theobalds Rd, WC1X 8PA www.camden.gov.uk/holbornvision summarising the responses will also be prepared. • Tuesday 11 June, 1pm to 4pm It is planned that a final Holborn Vision and Urban Have a question? Strategy will be adopted as an SPD later in the year. • Thursday 20 June, 5pm to 8pm ? Email: [email protected] Please read on for a summary of the draft framework The consultation boards will be on display at the library Or call: 020 7974 4703 and fill out our consultation questionnaire. for the duration of the consultation period. TIMESCALES Winter 2018/2019 May/June 2019 Summer 2019 Autumn 2019 Winter 2019/2020 Development of Adopt Vision and first draft of the Public engagement on Review engagement Develop final draft of Urban Strategy Vision and Urban the draft Holborn Vision responses and produce the Vision and Urban as supplementary Strategy and Urban Strategy consultation summary Strategy document planning document (SPD) www.camden.gov.uk/holbornvision HOLBORN VISION AND URBAN STRATEGY OPPORTUNITY AN OPPORTUNITY AT THE HEART OF CENTRAL LONDON Holborn is an important growth area in the heart of Crossrail and the West End Project will bring additional TfL, for instance, have recently announced a multi- Central London. The area includes a mixed community transport capacity that could support the expansion million pound investment to improve the public of residents side-by-side with major businesses and of the economy and transform the areas to the east realm in the Holborn area as part of the Liveable institutions. Holborn also has a thriving cultural scene and west. To the north the new district at King’s Cross Neighbourhoods Programme. and some of London’s most iconic historic architecture Central, the Knowledge Quarter, and HS2 at Euston London Underground are also planning investment in attracting visitors year-round. are also bringing investment and change. to Holborn Tube Station and a new station entrance at As a consequence, Holborn has attracted much Future development sites offer the opportunity to Procter Street which will deliver a significant capacity development in recent years. Central St. Giles, deliver new homes, attract new jobs and economic upgrade. designed by award winning architect Renzo Piano, activity, retail and the opportunity to upgrade the There is a fantastic one-off opportunity for the wider includes over 400,000sqft of office along with retail, quality of Holborn’s streets and spaces that bring so transformation of Holborn to support this growth and residential and an outdoor public piazza. The Post much character to the area. deliver benefits for its communities. Building is a bold new office development. Recent developments ST PANCRAS KINGS CROSS GYRATORY EUSTON Cycle super highway 6 The Post Opened September £35m 2018 Building investment in the West End Project Projected £9.5m investment in Kingsway/ CS6 150k Holborn public passengers High Holborn per day junction realm improvements Central Projected St Giles WEST END 200k PUBLIC REALM passengers FARRINGDON per day PROJECT HOLBORN Holborn tube: OXFORD TOTTENHAM 30% increase 1 New CIRCUS COURT ROAD in demand by 2031 Oxford Street NORTHBANK CS3 PUBLIC REALM PROJECT CROSSRAIL JOURNEY TIMES (mins) £15bn (ELIZABETH LINE) CURRENT FUTURE investment in TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD Crossrail CANARY WHARF 21 12 HEATHROW 40 30 FARRINGDON Major recent investment in transport and public realm projects to accommodate future growth CANARY WHARF 25 8 BOND STREET 18 4 LIVEABLE NEIGHBOURHOODS FUND KEY OPPORTUNITIES Camden Council was successful in its bid to Transport • Advantageous central London location. for London’s (TfL) Liveable Neighbourhoods programme for up to £9.48m funding to improve • Major transport investments, including the environment for pedestrians and cyclists in the new Elizabeth Line Stations at Holborn area, as well as creating an enhanced public Tottenham Court Road and Farringdon. realm and access to public transport. More investment is planned including a This project will seek to remove the gyratory, reduce major tube station capacity upgrade at severance, improve the public realm and introduce Holborn Underground Station. protected cycle lanes. Plans will be developed to improve the setting for the British Museum, enhance • Significant recent developments, and the pedestrian environment around Holborn station more planned, that could bring additional and introduce a freight reduction scheme. economic growth and add to the rich A first phase of feasibility will start soon and will be Indicative sketch showing potential improvements variety and environment. subject to its own public consultation later in the year. to Museum Street www.camden.gov.uk/holbornvision HOLBORN VISION AND URBAN STRATEGY HOLBORN TODAY WHAT MAKES HOLBORN THE PLACE IT IS TODAY? How do you see Holborn A PLACE TO LIVE, WORK AND VISIT today? KEY TAKEAWAYS • A mixed community: homes and residents alongside large established cultural, education and health institutions, a major commercial destination, internationally renowned visitor attractions, London’s historic legal district and Hatton Garden jewellery quarter. • A thriving commercial environment Amongst a wealth of visitor attractions in the area, Holborn and Covent Garden ranks 11th of Camden WeWork have recently leased all six floors of Holborn’s that is diversifying - including growth the British Museum was the most visited attraction in wards in household income, and has the 6th highest 1 Waterhouse Square in the tech sector,a high demand for Britain with 5.9m visitors in 2017 proportion of those that socially rent their homes. commercial space and a shift towards high quality and flexible office space. • Holborn and Covent Garden has high levels of deprivation despite this economic success indicating there are barriers to the growth that could benefit local communities. • Holborn’s historic thriving employment industries have LSE is one of a number of world class educational The shift in industry sectors has seen the rise of IT historically been attributed to the higher education and institutions in the area. services and small space office providers are catering legal industries for the growing micro business market CHARACTER AND HERITAGE KEY TAKEAWAYS • Holborn is a historic place with some of London’s most important and notable listed buildings and conservation areas. • There are characterful networks of streets, lanes, passages and historic garden squares, some of which could benefit from improvement. • There are a number of distinct character areas surrounding Holborn exemplified The historic character of Hatton Garden derives from Bloomsbury represents a period of London’s early Denmark Street Conservation Area sees seven by its diverse mix of land uses. its robustly detailed buildings and an intricate street expansion northwards, dating from around 1660, and centuries of history expressed in the street layout, the pattern overlaid on undulating topography continued through to around 1840 legacy of buildings, open spaces and mix of uses • Some of the more modern buildings have unsuccessfully related to Holborn’s rich architectural and historic surroundings. Seven Dials’ unique character sees vibrant economic Kingsway Conservation Area is characterised by Chancery Lane has historic associations with the activity combined with the conservation of built heritage, a complete example of large scale Edwardian law, with origins as a centre for medieval legal creating a place important to Camden and to London architecture administration, around buildings such as Staple Inn MOVEMENT, PUBLIC REALM AND SUSTAINABILITY KEY TAKEAWAYS • Highly