Controversial Southall Sidings Development Approved
Project containing 16 storey tower will include 460 flats
Visualisation of the Southall Sidings development. Picture: Assael Architecture
Ealing Council’s planning committee approved a major new development in Southall this Wednesday (16 September) at a virtual meeting.
The project will include 5 buildings, the highest of which will be sixteen storeys.
Despite over 300 objections being lodged against the scheme, the committee followed the council planner’s recommendation and approved the scheme by 11 votes to 2. Cllr Jon Ball was one of the dissenters on the grounds that the rents for the ‘affordable’ units in the scheme were too close to market levels to be genuinely affordable.
The proposal is for the comprehensive redevelopment of Southall Sidings, a site located a short walk from Southall Station on Park Avenue.
40% of the habitable rooms in the 460 flats in the build to rent scheme will be classed as affordable with rents at an average of 65% of market rents. The flats will be a mixture of one, two and three bedroom properties.
The site is owned by Transport for London who appointed Grainger PLC to manage the development under the Connected Living (CLL) brand and it is the first of four similar developments planned. The new buildings have been designed by architects Assael Architecture.
A petition signed by 555 people opposing the scheme was presented to the council. It argued that the development was inappropriate in an area characterised by low rise housing. It was stated that because Southall is already the most densely populated part of the borough, development on this scale was inappropriate. The petition claims that nearly 10,000 housing units are to be built or have been proposed in Ealing over the last two years.
Ben Tate, a spokesperson for CLL and Head of Property Development at TfL, said: “It’s fantastic to see the first of our sites at Southall get the go-ahead as part of Connected Living London. We can now start delivering quality rental homes that the capital desperately needs and help improve the area for the local community.”
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September 17, 2020
