London home scheme given green light to approve 2,000 new rental homes

One of largest rental community schemes in UK approved at Greenford Green, Ealing, London.

A 1,965-home development has been given the go-ahead, with real estate company Greystar appointing Meinhardt UK alongside HTA Design (architects) and Alinea Consulting (Cost Consultants), to regenerate an area of industrial wasteland next to the Grand Union Canal.

The development will primarily be for multi-family rental, but will also have available a mix of private sale, affordable and shared ownership homes set within a mixed-use well-managed neighbourhood.

The Meinhardt team has developed an earthworks strategy which will allow the developer to retain and re-use the maximum available demolition material, to improve the ground levels, which currently slope some six metres from one end of the sight to the other.

Meinhardt has been surveying the site and working with utility companies to design the demolition and enabling works packages so that the site is cleared for the main contractor during 2017.

The project team are also proceeding with the design development for Phase One, with an anticipated start on site for construction late in 2017.

With blocks accommodating between 198 and 379 apartments, the plans promise 1,439 rented homes, 526 homes for market sale, with agreed affordable housing comprising discount rented and shared ownership homes. The scheme will also deliver communal space, 59,500 square feet of office space as well as 65,000 square feet of retail – including a new grocery store – and 33,000 square feet of space for restaurants and cafes.

The project has to work around the listed ‘Art Deco’ former GSK HQ building which will be extended and renovated behind a retained façade. The proposal retains the use as a commercial building.

A new primary school is also including on the site, as well as accommodation for a new health centre. There are also plans for a new pedestrian bridge over the canal and a proposal to re-open Berkeley Avenue to improve accessibility.

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