Camden’s Social Housing Heritage

Camden has a strong heritage of high density low rise housing that has now achieved iconic status. Much of the impetus for this movement came from Sidney Cook who was the borough’s chief architect at the time.

  ‘In an era sharply divided by wealth, [Sidney] Cook sought to fulfil the post war Labour idea of well-managed council housing available to the ‘doctor, the grocer, the butcher and the farm labourer’.

‘The social housing they built during this period has become some of the most iconic 20th century housing in the world’.

Below are just some of the amazing low rise high density architecture you can find in Camden today.