The Camden Nature Corridor

The Camden Nature Corridor is a plan to improve and extend nature-rich green spaces in Camden and to bring their benefits to the doorsteps of residents in nature-poor areas. It will do this by improving five of Camden’s Sites of Interest for Nature Conservation (SINCs) and linking them through new “green infrastructure” in planned housing development. This will create a corridor of accessible woodland, hedgerow and meadow, extending the rich biodiversity of Hampstead Heath into residential areas to the south. More nature in urban neighbourhoods will improve our well-being and quality of life and, at the same time, make our local biodiversity richer and more resilient to urban growth and climate change. Working across Camden’s pressing demands for both better housing and nature restoration, this is a unique opportunity to deliver on both. 

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Five of Camden’s protected SINCs lie in a line from Hampstead Heath into Kentish Town. The largest is Hampstead Heath itself, central London’s most biodiversity-rich open space. Stretching below the southeast corner of the Heath along railway edges are a series of smaller SINCs. These include the longstanding, community-managed Mortimer Terrace Nature Reserve, the Kentish Town City Farm, Britain’s oldest urban farm, the Gospel Oak Railway Sidings meadows and woodland managed by Network Rail, and Talacre Town Green, an important local recreational space that has recently earned SINC status with its development of meadow and hedgerow habitats. Several of these SINCs already provide nature education activities for local residents and schools.

In between, and bordering, these SINCs lie central Camden’s three priority sites for housing and business development, Murphy’s Yard, Regis Road and West Kentish Town Estate. Approximately 2000 new homes are planned for these sites in the coming decade. 

The maps below show existing SINCS within the corridor, and planned improvements alongside the development areas across Kentish Town.