Stirling Prize winner named as lead architect on regeneration of buildings neighbouring high speed line’s Euston site
dRMM has won an £800,000 job to design the redevelopment of five blocks on a housing estate directly adjacent to the HS2 Euston site.
Camden council has appointed the Stirling Prize-winning practice as lead architect on the 600-home regeneration of a part of the Regents Park Estate North, which it said has been made “virtually uninhabitable” by construction work for the high-speed line.
The council has also named Tibbalds as planning consultant on a £123,000 contract and employers agent Potter Raper on a £78,000 contract, with the appointment of a cost consultant expected to be made in March.
The appointments come three years after the council’s decision to rehome residents of the site’s three residential buildings, the Cartmel, Coniston and Langdale blocks, due to “significant” disruption and noise emanating from the neighbouring construction site.
The buildings are directly adjacent to HS2’s proposed final approach to the line’s central London terminus at Euston station, where SCS, a joint venture between Skanska, Costain and Strabag, are carrying out tunneling and track construction work.
Camden council said it had become apparent by 2022 that the work was “severely affecting” the residents of the three residential blocks and entered into an HS2-funded settlement agreement the following year to move the tenants.
Of the site’s original 153 residents, only 23 remained in the buildings as of November last year, when the council approved a plan to redevelop the site.
The buildings earmarked for redevelopment also include a children’s centre and a small commercial block, Stanhope Parade.
The appointed project team has been tasked with drawing up a hybrid planning application for the site with an outline component containing around 500 homes and a detailed component with a further 110 homes.
The council is also in the process of setting up a development corporation for the Euston area which would be responsible for making planning decisions on land surrounding the station site.
The development corporation would work closely with the government’s proposed Euston Delivery Company, which would oversee private finance and development proposals for a life sciences and housing-led regeneration of the station district.
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