This scheme to turn an unkempt piece of Metropolitan Open Land in North London into an exemplar carbon-negative development includes new buildings for the relocation of Ashmount Primary School and Bowlers Nursery, and the refurbishment of the Cape Youth Centre to include an Ecology Centre, all set within a new community park. The new primary school is carefully integrated into the landscape; built into the contours of the steeply sloping site to maximise views of the landscape from inside the building, while reducing its impact on the park. Three of the four levels of the school open to the outside, either at ground level or to rooftop play terraces, which bring the children into direct contact with the upper levels of the woods. The Cape building is a four storey brick structure originally built as a substation for the electrification of the now disused railway line in the 1930s. The project is a rare opportunity for London to build new places of learning and community resource in an inspirational urban woodland setting. This will be supported by good community engagement, community-oriented services delivered from the site and management arrangements which protect the future of the site and promote its use by a wide cross section of the community. Carbon-negative status has been achieved through minimising energy consumption, the use of on-site renewables and a gas fired CHP plant to provide heat & power to the buildings on site and to neighbouring, existing housing blocks. The project has been awarded £0.5m through the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) Low and Zero Carbon Schools – Pilot and Exemplar Projects initiative.