39 Tottenham Street
An Important Historic Building
No 39 Tottenham Street is an important historic building in Fitzrovia, lying at the junction of Tottenham Street and Goodge Place. For over forty years the ground floor and basement were home to the Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Centre, which played a large part in local campaigns to halt widespread redevelopment, and to preserve Fitzrovia as an area where ordinary people can live and work. The property has been unoccupied since the last tenant was rehoused in 2009 and the Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Association vacated the ground floor and basement in 2019.
The Fitzrovia Trust has approached the freeholder, Camden Council, with a view to taking a long lease on the building in order to convert it to affordable housing and a commercial or community use on the lower floors.
The building is in a semi-derelict condition. It has been identified as an Asset of Community Value, which provides an opportunity for a community group such as the Trust to purchase it. It is listed Grade II, in a conservation area and is on Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Register.
39 Tottenham Street in the early 1970s. Before becoming the Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Centre the ground floor had been occupied by a glazier’s shop
DECEMBER 2025
Things are moving ahead quite rapidly in terms of acquiring a lease on 39 Tottenham Street and raising the money for its redevelopment. We hope to have more news early in 2026.
SUMMER 2025
We have recently had a number of useful meetings with Camden Councillors and Officers about taking a long lease on the property, and finding the resources to carry out a full refurbishment of the building. Our aim is to provide one or more flats at affordable rents on the upper floors and other compatible uses on the ground and basement floors.
We have also retained a firm of consultants to assist us with the design, funding, and quantity surveying aspects of the project.
Because of the condition of the building and the cost of restoring a listed building, there is no guarantee that a viable project can be secured, but the Trust pulling out all the stops to try and make it happen.
If you can assist in any way, please contact Colin on fitzroviatrust@aol.co.uk