Regis Road is set to be redeveloped as a mini Hollywood

• BY setting your headline story on Kentish Town’s new Hollywood-style campus, alongside the letters pages, last week’s CNJ has revealed the empty and bizarre world of Camden’s political elite.

This film studio proposal is led by a Channel Islands-based investment fund. Its prospectus tells investors: “Exit envisaged in 8-10 years through the sale of the assets.” Its sole purpose is to make profits through the “conversion of sub-prime real estate/ sites into high-quality core real estate”.

The big story about turning Camden’s “dump” (proper name: recycling centre) into film studios has been updated with the news that the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield is in talks about a potential move to Kentish Town.

What’s so great about moving the acting school to NW5? It may create jobs but won’t jobs be lost in Beaconsfield?

With the Central School, NW5 Theatre School, The Poor School, The Round-house, PQC, Regent’s Park University etc plus all the kids’ schools including the Brit, can we really talk about a dearth of performing arts training options for north London?

Talk about slaking demand from London’s pool of “extraordinary…. talent” is comedy gold.

Has Georgia Gould’s in-box been overwhelmed by urgent requests for a “Camden Film Quarter”?

Nothing could better demonstrate the absence of any serious comprehen­sive programme for the borough than this carry-on.

I suggest the following priorities for NW5:

• maintain real economy jobs in the Kentish Town industrial area in the face of Yoo Capital’s masterplan for the “Camden Film Quarter”;

• tackle the dire state of Camden’s repair and maintenance service, now carrying a liability of well over £200million of dilapidations;

• prepare the borough in depth for the climate change challenge partly by ensuring new recycling and housing repair and maintenance facilities (which Yoo Capital is apparently contractually obligated to reprovide for Camden) are good enough – an incredibly important discussion which has had no public airing so far;

• delivering serious amounts of net additional council housing.

TOM YOUNG, NW5