Policy information sourced from the Brent Local Plan
BNWGA1A Northwick Park Growth Area
The Northwick Park site will undergo major regeneration, making the best use of land in this highly sustainable location. This will provide a mix of uses, helping to create a self-sustaining community with a sense of place, including around 1,900 new homes (net addition around 1,600 homes). Development will maximise the delivery of affordable housing, and will see the existing key workers rehoused on site in more suitable and modern dwellings. Delivery will include a high proportion of family dwellings in addition to purpose built student accommodation in association with the on-site university facilities.
Although subject to transformational change, the scale of development will need to respond positively to its surrounding context, particularly with regards to building heights. Development will integrate strongly with the adjacent Metropolitan Open Land, providing green fingers which help to bring the park into the development.
Funding generated as a result of the development will be reinvested into the existing on-site infrastructure, including the Northwick Park Hospital, and the University of Westminster Harrow campus. This will serve to enhance existing facilities through renewal, and the addition of complementary uses such as new medical, community and sporting facilities. Access to the site will be improved, through a new Watford Road junction and the adjacent Northwick Park London Underground station being made more prominent and accessible to all users. Supporting infrastructure associated with new housing development will be drawn up in a forthcoming masterplan, and as a minimum will include:
- A new flexible retail offer adjacent to Northwick Park station which will serve to meet local needs;
- A new nursery capable of meeting existing needs, and those arising from new development;
- A range of multi-purpose green spaces which seek to enhance the biodiversity of the surrounding area whilst providing new play space for children, including 2 new 0.2ha pocket parks;
- Improvements to site accessibility, prioritising funding toward the most sustainable modes of transport;
- On site combined heat and power centre which will provide a network for surrounding major development, including potentially those at Harrow-onthe-Hill;
- And enhancements to existing on-site infrastructure which serves the wider area and that of Greater London.
View the allocations in the Brent Local Plan