Policy information sourced from the Brent Local Plan

BP3 North

Proposals should plan positively to deliver the place vision by contributing and where appropriate delivering the following:

Character, Heritage and Design

Maintain and enhance local character and distinctiveness by:

  • Continuing to conserve and enhance designated heritage assets within this area;
  • Respecting the predominantly suburban low rise character of the area. Tall buildings of 30 metres or more will be directed to the Burnt Oak and Colindale Growth Areas, in town centres and intensification corridors around 15 metres (5 storeys) could be appropriate. In these areas development should be stepped down to form a comfortable relationship with adjacent areas.
  • Protecting, and where possible, enhancing the setting and quality of homes designed by Ernest Trobridge.

Homes

  • Minimum of 2,800 additional homes in the period to 2041, principally through the continued residential development within the Burnt Oak and Colindale Growth Area (around 2,100 homes). The potential residential development for the extension of the Burnt Oak and Colindale Growth Area, referred to as Capitol Valley, will be determined by a masterplan, taking into account the need to intensify industrial use on the site.
  • Co-location on Honeypot Lane LSIS.
  • Redevelopment of the Morrison’s site to maximise land use efficiency.
  • Residential development within various locations at Kingsbury town centre to support its vitality and viability.
  • Intensification corridors of the A5 Edgware Road, A4006 Kingsbury and Kenton Roads and A4140 Fryent Way and Honeypot Lane – the development capacity of these areas is unknown. Residential development is dependent on whether conversions/ extensions or redevelopment of existing buildings come forward.

Town Centres

  • Pursue opportunities to enhance the role and function of Kingsbury as an ethnic/ specialist food shopping destination
  • Establish clear identities for Colindale/ The Hyde and Burnt Oak through implementing public realm, building upgrades and shop facade improvements.
  • Provide up to 1,600 sqm of net convenience foods retail floorspace, up to 200 sqm cafe/ restaurant floorspace and 100 sqm drinking establishment floorspace by 2028. This floorspace should be directed towards the three town centres.
  • Additional residential on upper floors or making efficient use of plots within Kingsbury, Burnt Oak and Colindale/ The Hyde town centres will be supported to increase local population catchments.

Community and Cultural Facilities

  • Meeting social infrastructure requirements by securing provision for needs arising from new housing development, especially the provision of new education, health, cultural and community facilities, notably at Burnt Oak and Colindale
  • Explore opportunities for additional secondary school provision within this place.
  • Identify opportunities to potentially meet the need for a new leisure facility that incorporates swimming pool provision.
  • Improve the quality of strategic sports hall sites within this place.

Employment and Skills

Supporting the local economy by:

  • Encouraging the co-location redevelopment of Honeypot Lane LSIS to create a wide range of additional new business premises fit for modern day occupiers.
  • Supporting transformational change at Colindale LSIS to provide intensification and the creation of a new mixed use community.
  • Supporting new and improved industrial premises as part of a wider site development with Morrison’s at Honeypot Lane (Lowther Road).

Open Space and Biodiversity

Maintaining and enhancing the quality of public parks, open spaces and biodiversity areas through:

  • Enhancements to Leybourne Road Open Space and Abbey National Open Space.
  • Creating at least 3 new public open spaces and squares of at least 0.2 hectares each within the Burnt Oak and Colindale Growth Area.
  • Pursue opportunities to improve the Capital Ring.
  • Tree planting and associated landscaping around the A5 corridor.
  • Improve the quality of the borough’s SINC sites within the area, in line with the recommendations included in SINC Review.

Transport

  • Reduce the traffic dominance and enhance the A5 corridor, Kenton Road and Kingsbury Road through implementing public realm improvements to achieve Healthy Street Standards.
  • Support the delivery of creating new cycling links between key destinations within this area, such as open spaces, tube stations and employment sites.

For more information please see the Brent Local Plan