Goldstein Heather reveals designs for homes at Old Oak and Park Royal

The 3-year-previous exercise has applied for authorization from the Old Oak and Park Royal Enhancement Company (ODPC), the nearby scheduling authority for a 650ha regeneration web site, which spans 3 boroughs in west London.

Its £40 million Mitre Wharf scheme for developer London Inexperienced would be on the japanese suggestion of the site on a .33ha plot north of Wormwood Scrubs. It comprises two blocks – of eight and nine storeys – with 833m² of business house on the ground and decreased-floor flooring underneath a combine of just one, two and a few-bedroom flats.

The web site, which has a 140m frontage to the Grand Union Canal, is at the moment applied by a tyre provider and fitters and the software incorporates the demolition of current constructions. 

Practice director Giles Heather mentioned: ‘Our proposals for Mitre Wharf will completely transform a critical web-site of the OPDC improvement location at the confluence of Scrubs Lane, rail infrastructure and the Grand Union Canal. It aims to set a benchmark for urban style and design, combine with the canalside landscape and cultivate a actual neighbourhood all-around it. 

‘The architecture is restrained and very well-proportioned, deploying grey and white brickwork lifted by painted steel balconies. The two residential blocks are grouped all around a playful landscape, wherever people today can whilst away time, or even consider a slide down to the canalside.’ 

These hottest designs stick to a pre-application proposal by Heather’s previous employer Squire & Partners in 2016, which showcased a few stepped blocks of 31, 7 and 5 storeys providing 118 homes. That was then revised subsequent liaison with the ODPC to two blocks, 1 of 5 storeys and yet another soaring from 6 to 9 storeys in three increments.

Goldstein Heather hopes that its software will be thought of by the ODPC setting up committee in September. If approved, get the job done would get started on internet site early up coming year. 

The exercise is a person of 50 architecture companies now doing work with the ODPC, in accordance to Eleanor Fawcett, the corporation’s head of layout. The company is overseeing the creation of 25,500 households. 

Speaking at an AJ100 lunch previous month, Fawcett explained the ODPC would be recruiting much more methods to assist design the new town centre at Old Oak, which is to have an HS2 station open up in 2030.

‘At the minute we are pondering about whether we can do competitions, or what is the correct way of obtaining architects to take the direct on initiatives we will be promoting,’ she claimed.

Ground ground system

Task facts

Use Residential, retail, workspace
Customer London Green
ArchitectGoldstein Heather Architecture
Framework London Buildings Lab
MEP Integration
Preparing Quod
Landscape McGregor Coxall
Neighborhood authority Old Oak and Park Royal Advancement Corporation
Models 148 a combine of studios, 1-beds, 2-beds and 3-beds.
Residential gross area 11 700m² 

Goldstein Heather Architecture’s proposed Mitre Wharf options – axonometric