People and Place: Camden
Falcon Laundry Rooms
Reviving derelict laundry rooms as resident-led community spaces
meet ...
Ben
Our Why
Laundry rooms on the Falcon Estate have sat empty for many years while residents face, over crowding, damp homes and a lack of affordable space. Bringing these spaces back into use will help build community and trust.
Our Idea
We aim to pilot a resident-led model to bring six unused laundry rooms back into use — by transforming these spaces into usable rooms (perhaps drying rooms, meeting spaces, studios, or repair shops), and creating a self-funding model that supports long-term upkeep and use. The goal is to create create a replicable model for reactivating spaces across other Estates, turning wasted square footage into practical community assets. Income from rented rooms could support communal facilities and long-term upkeep, turning underused assets into practical community-building spaces.
About
Ben
A local resident, Ben has helped make estate improvements happen ranging from greening to air quality monitoring. Driven by the daily reality of underused assets, lack of space, daily realities of damp flats with poor ventilation and poor air quality, Ben wants to focus is on reclaiming local spaces to prove that social housing can be a great place to live, and should thrive when residents have the power to steward their own environment.
