HIGHGATE NEW TOWN PHASE 1, CAMDEN Community-led Conservation Guidance for inclusion in the Dartmouth Park Conservation Area and Application for Grade II* Listing
This report presents community-led Conservation Area guidance and an application for Grade II* Listing for Highgate New Town Phase 1 (HNT), Camden, London, designed by architect Peter Tábori and constructed 1967-78. The study it presents was produced by a working-group comprising residents from HNT, supported by their Tenants and Residents Association (TRA) the Whittington Estate Residents Association (WERA) and community/heritage researcher Tom Davies (AHO) together with architectural historian Professor Mark Swenarton as consultant. The report sets out conservation guidance, developed through a community-led process and specific to HNT, for inclusion in the Dartmouth Park Conservation Area (DPCA). This is followed by the application for Grade II* Listing for the deliberation of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and Historic England (HE), which seeks to recognise the national significance of HNT as exemplary public-housing. These are made on the basis of its exceptional heritage values, the importance of retaining community spaces for its community and strong resident support from that community.
This report presents community-led Conservation Area guidance and an application for Grade II* Listing for Highgate New Town Phase 1 (HNT), Camden, London, designed by architect Peter Tábori and constructed 1967-78. The study it presents was produced by a working-group
comprising residents from HNT, supported by their Tenants and Residents Association (TRA) the Whittington Estate Residents Association (WERA) and community/heritage researcher Tom Davies (AHO) together with architectural historian Professor Mark Swenarton as consultant. The report sets out conservation guidance, developed through a community-led process and specific to HNT, for inclusion in the Dartmouth Park Conservation Area (DPCA). This is followed by the application for Grade II* Listing for the deliberation of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and Historic England (HE), which seeks to recognise the national significance of HNT as exemplary public-housing. These are made on the basis of its exceptional heritage values, the importance of retaining community spaces for its community and strong resident support from that community.
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Peter Tábori’s Highgate New Town: Phase 1 (1967-78), one of the exemplary projects
built at Camden from the late ‘60s (Alexandra Road, Maiden Lane etc.), is a singular
achievement in the ‘urban-renewal’ and community-focus of the late 1960s, which blends
continuity and the exoticism of Italian hill-towns to create vibrant place and community.
This study tells the story of its development from origins in its challenging design to the
heritage of its community today, spanning a wealth of rich connections from Richard and Su
Rogers, Neave Brown, Ernö Goldfinger and the Etruscan God Tinia to Jane Jacobs and the
megastructures of Paul Rudolph on the other side of the Atlantic.
Reflecting the gathering recognition of Tábori’s achievement seen in its inclusion in a 2019
RIBA-funded project identifying nine exemplar housing schemes for future housing models,
this study presents community-led Conservation Area guidance and an application for
Grade II* Listing to recognise and support Highgate New Town: Phase 1. As a residentled
initiative, this story is told by the residents, historians and other sources, making a
compelling case for care and support on the basis of its exceptional heritage values, the
importance of its vital and unusual community spaces for its community and strong resident
support from within that community.
The authors (Tom Davies and the WERA Working-Group) would like to thank; Professor
Mark Swenarton (Cooks Camden: the making of Modern Housing) who contributed expert
knowledge and support throughout and Fabian Watkinson, who kick-started the project and
contributed boundless enthusiastism and invaluable assistance, as well as Even Smith-
Wergeland (AHO, Oslo), Luis Diaz (University of Brighton) and David Roberts (The Bartlett,
UCL), for their guidance and steadfast support. Thanks also to Jonathon Makepeace at
RIBA for the permission to use some of Tim Crocker and Martin Charles’ fantastic images
and illustrator Stephanie Bower for lending her image of Civita di Bagnoregio.
Maridalsveien 29 0175 Oslo dd +(0047) 41258875 m +44 (0)7815 301 399 e tom.davies@aho.no
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