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Regent’s Place, London NW1

Regent‘s Place is a thriving West End business quarter. It consists of 92,900 m² of offices with public spaces and retail units, plus two sites for development schemes. The site fronts onto Euston Road and has good public transport links.

In 1992 British Land was a founder member of the West Euston Partnership in Regent’s Place which was established to make the area a better place to live and work. Other members include Camden Council, the Health Authority, the police, occupiers associations and community groups. We have supported community groups, including the Third Age Project, which offers activities for older people, Diorama Arts Centre and the West Euston Partnership One Stop Shop for employment and training services.

Following the creation of a new public space at Triton Square in Regent’s Place in 2003, we established an Events Organising Committee, which includes local people and occupiers. Each year this committee arranges a multi-cultural events programme in Triton Square, with events including Bengali music and dance, line dancing, flamenco dancing, Japanese Taiko drumming, salsa evenings, a giant chess match and a soul music revue.

We have been involved in a series of creative education projects with local secondary schools for several years. In 2004 pupils worked with professional artists to create dance and music pieces which they performed in Triton Square to family, friends, media and the public. In 2005 another group created a piece of music which was recorded on CD using funding from Arts and Business. In 2006 pupils created a video of ideas to improve Euston Road, including pedestrianising the area and installing an elevated globe with a performance space underneath.

Hustle and Flow

Regent's Place Hustle & Flow

   

Pupils from South Camden Community School created a film visualising ideas for Euston Road.

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We have been encouraging sustainable travel in the area since 2001 when we developed a Regent’s Place Travel Plan to reduce emissions and make the area more pleasant for local people, visitors and occupiers’ employees, as well as safer for pedestrians. Between 2000 and 2003 cycling to work in Regent’s Place increased by 50% and car use halved. The plan featured in the Government’s best practice guidelines for travel plans. In 2006 we developed two new Travel Plans for Regent’s Place; one for the proposed 160 new homes and the other for the proposed commercial office and retail space.

In 2006 we started implementing our Regent’s Place Biodiversity Action Plan, beginning an experimental green roof design trial to test the logistics of a retro-fit green roof and the use of substrate types, including recycled materials. This trial will help to inform the future design of green roofs.

Anna Woodfield, Community Arts Manager, South Camden Community School.

“The ‘Hustle and Flow’ project was a fabulous example of young people working creatively with architecture professionals over the duration of a week. The hands on experience they gained was really beneficial in terms of skills development and learning new ways of working. Students developed a good working relationship with the professionals and started to see things in a new and imaginative way. We are extremely thankful to British Land for giving the students this unique opportunity.”

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