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Wednesday 24 October 2018

Euston Residents’ Assembly

Best use of space in &

around Euston

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This evening

• Best use of space in and around

Euston

• Focus on:

• Homes

• Retail

• Leisure and culture

• Knowledge economy and office

• Next steps

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Euston Area

Plan:Overall Land Use

Strategy

Bloomsbury Square

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2,800 to 3,800 new homes

180,000 to 280,000 sqm between 7,700 to 14,100 jobs

30% knowledge-based, science-based, innovative

and creative

10,000 sqm shops

10,000 sqm food and drink,

and financial and professional services

Euston Area Plan:Overall Land Use Strategy

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Euston Area

Plan:Illustrative Plans

Bloomsbury Square

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• What retail do you and the people you live with use?

• How often do you use it?

• Do you travel to shop? How far?

• What is good about local retail?

• What is bad about local retail?

• What types of retail would you like to see and where would you locate it?

• In your neighbourhoods?

• In the station?

• Above the station?

• What is good and bad about each of these locations?

Table discussion:

What retail do you use and want to use?

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Euston Area:Community

Facilities

Bloomsbury Square

Wellcome Trust

Friends House

OneSupport

Shahjalal Jame Masjid

Camden People’s Theatre

Voluntary Action Camden

Netley Primary School

Surma Centre

Westminster Kingsway College

St Anne’s ChurchChurch of St Mary Magdalene

Bengali Parent &

Tenant’s Assoc.

St. Mary’s Church and School

St. Aloysius Primary

St. Mary and St. Pancras Primary

Hampden Childrens Centre

Edith Neville Primary

Francis Crick Institute

British LibraryMaria Fidelis School

Basil Jellicoe Comm. HallDar Al-Hakma Trust

Shaw Theatre

St Pancras Church

Somers Town Community Centre

Institute of Ismaili StudiesAga Khan University

Regent High School

Somers Town Comm. Sports Centre

Somers Town Youth Centre

Crowndale Centre

Al Rahman Mosque and Community Centre

Theatro Technis

St Pancras Community Centre

Camden Town Library

Richard Cobden Primary

New Horizon Youth Centre

Brook Advisory Centre

Training Link

Area of future station

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• What leisure, community and cultural spaces do you use in the

neighbourhood?

• What is good about them?

• How often do you use them?

• Do you travel to use these facilities? How far?

• Are there facilities that are missing from the area?

Table discussion:

Leisure, community and cultural spaces

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Presentations

• Housing and affordable need – Camden

• Local businesses – Euston Town

• Knowledge economy – Camden and Lendlease

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Camden │Therese Gallagher

Housing

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Housing targets in planning policy

• 2017 identified need for

1,120 homes/year

(through 2031)

• Camden delivering

• 2014/15: 797

• 2015/16: 988

• 2017/18: 1191

• Identified sites to

provide 1,140/year

(through 2031)

LOCAL

• Current London Plan:

889 homes/year

• Draft London Plan:

1,086 homes/year

LONDON

?

• Developing standard

method for calculating

requirement

• One proposed method

required >1,500/homes

year

NATIONAL

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• Local Plan: 50% affordable where ≥ 25 homes

• EAP: “seek the maximum reasonable amount of affordable

housing”

• Home size priorities

Affordable housing policy

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How affordable housing is being provided

• There are ~24,000 LBC homes

• Letting allocations in LBC and

Registered Provider housing:

• 2015/16: 1049

• 2016/17: 880

• 2017/18: 923

80% of these are LBC housing

Includes transfers from within LBC

housing

• Home sizes among allocations

• Studios – 13%

• 1-bed – 42%

• 2-bed – 24%

• 3-bed – 16%

• 4+-bed – 5%

Allocations

• The average wait time for allocations

across all unit sizes is 4 years

• Currently, there are 5,534 applicants

who have not been successfully

placed in Council or RP housing

• ~50% of applicants currently live in

LBC housing

• Once new housing is given planning

permission, it takes <2 years to

construct

Demand

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Euston Town │Simon Pitkeathley and Georgie Street

Local businesses

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Camden │Karen Galey

Lendlease │Kevin Chapman

Knowledge economy and commercial

• Growth in Camden is strong - almost 20% since 2009 –higher than the UK and London. 33,000 businesses and 368,000 jobs = 7% of all employment in London and 2% of national GDP.

• World class agglomeration of knowledge producing businesses and institutions in the Kings Cross / Euston area. Identified growth sectors employ 186,000 people in Camden (BRES 2015)

• Large employers such as Google, Universal, Francis Crick, Arup, Grant Thornton, Viacom, Warner Bros anchor growth sectors in Camden and attract a plethora of smaller businesses.

Camden’s Knowledge Economy

A 2018 study of innovation in the area focused on 3 areas of expertise in the Knowledge Quarter (KQ):

• Life Sciences (Key institutions : London School Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UCL, Royal Veterinary College and the Francis Crick)

• Digital Collections (Key institutions : British Library, British Museum, Wellcome Trust and UCL )

• Machine Learning/AI (UCL, University of London, Alan Turing Institute, Deep Mind, BenevelentAI)

KQ internationally leading in all of these areas of expertise, as measured by research grants, publications, patents granted, drug discoveries and start up companies, including university spin-outs.

42,000 new employee jobs in science and technology were created in Camden and Islington 2003 – 2013. In 2015, one-third of the jobs in Camden fell into this category — the highest concentration of any local authority area in the UK.

KQ ‘spills out’ 30,000 highly skilled graduates, post-graduates and post-doctoral researchers per year and its universities have been responsible for spinning out over 100 new start ups in the last few years.

Science and Innovation in London’s Knowledge Quarter

Significant pressure on the supply of space that is suitable and affordable for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and on light industrial, workshop/studio and maker-type spaces that often support creative businesses.

73% of Camden businesses surveyed rated cost and availability of business premises as important and 76% said Camden’s performance on this issue was weak.

The majority of new jobs are created in a spatial footprint equal to 1.5% of the City, putting pressure on and driving up rents.

Pressure on space

Inhibitors of growth:

Low availability and high cost of appropriate commercial sites A shortage of innovation space, especially wet-laboratory space

for Life Sciences start-ups and small businesses. A lack of suitable move-on space A lack of business accelerators for start-ups and small firms A lack of affordable housing in the vicinity

Knowledge Capital Growth Synergies

Connecting People, Places & Possibilities

Framing Ideas – Euston Commercial

Euston – Connecting People, Places & Possibilities

• Bringing together the small start-ups as well as the large corporates.

• Recognising the importance of the local innovation and industry and how valuable this is to the overall success of the area.

• Provide a focal point where people will want to come and meet, linger, exhibit, share, hold events, eat, drink, play etc.

• A space for the whole community, to be shared, to be part of and be proud of.

• Uniting education and research with business. Catering for a range of business types that benefit from the Knowledge Quarter.

• Technology, media and creative industries working alongside locally based organisations like the Crick and Wellcome Trust.

A Place for all Businesses A Place for Diversity A Place for People to Come Together

Knowledge Capital Growth Synergies

Connecting People, Places & Possibilities

What could it mean for Euston?

Euston – Connecting People, Places & Possibilities

Employment opportunitiesAdditional commercial space drives significant local employment opportunities (Policy calls for over 14,000 of jobs, Lendlease’s aspiration is to provide more) across a number of sectors from arts and cultural to media and the creative industries.

National investment for local benefitInvestment in local services, public space, connectivity, transport, air quality, broadband infrastructure etc; increased daytime economy.

Access to education skills and training Targeted at Camden residents through the construction and operational phase of the project, partnerships with local institutions, retaining local talent, upskilling programmes, school outreach programmes like STEAM.

Business support – Opportunities for start upsProvision of affordable space for start ups and growing businesses, providing a range of sizes and types of space, from business support and incubation services, to hot desking and co-working.

Camden STEAM – building the talent pipeline

Linking businesses with schools to ensure that Camden’s young people have the skills they need to access the jobs in Camden’s creative, scientific and digital economy.

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Currently:

• Do you use/ interact with the existing institutions?

• What are the opportunities associated with these uses?

• What are the challenges?

In the future:

• What benefits could there be for local people?

Table discussion:Knowledge economy and what it means to you

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Given all of the competing uses and scarcity of space at Euston, what potential do

these uses have to bring opportunities?

Table discussion:

All of the uses at Euston

Potential to create

opportunities for YOU

(Scores: 1 – low

potential to 5- high

potential)

Potential to create

opportunities for

YOUR FAMILY

(Scores: 1 – low

potential to 5- high

potential)

Potential to create

opportunities for

YOUR COMMUNITY

(Scores: 1 – low

potential to 5- high

potential)

Potential to create

opportunities for

LONDON

(Scores: 1 – low

potential to 5- high

potential)

TOTAL SCORE

(out of 20)

Using space to build

more homes?

Using space to create

more jobs?

Using space to

strengthen the

knowledge economy?

Using space to create

more leisure,

community and

cultural opportunities?

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Next time

• Final meeting on 14 November 2018

• Theme: Your Euston

• Send us your

feedback(eustonresidents@thecamp

aigncompany.co.uk and

www.eustonresidentsassembly.com)