221005 MArys D&AStatement - Flipbook - Page 3
1. INTRODUCTION
Project Overview
This Design and Access Statement has been prepared
to support a Full Planning Application to the London
Borough of Camden, and describes our proposal to
make a new space for Mary’s at St Mary the Virgin,
Primrose Hill.
Mary’s is a charity dedicated to young people. Mary’s
mentors and counsels young people aged 10-25 at risk
of exclusion, gang exploitation and serious youth
violence.
Mary’s appointed Dow Jones Architects in 2020 to
review the spaces in which the charity works and
deliver its service.
Dow Jones Architects developed a series of options,
looking at the church as a whole, and have worked with
the charity to design an appropriate new space for the
important work of the charity at this busy church.
Following an extensive options appraisal, this proposal
rebuilds the 2008 St Mary’s Centre to the east of St
Mary’s Church, creating a small new building to house
Mary’s, alongside the other parish activities.
Mary’s, Primrose Hill