Policy information sourced from the Brent Local Plan

BP4 North West

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
  • Protecting, and where possible, enhancing the established metro-land characteristics of the place
  • Concentrating new tall buildings in the Northwick Park Growth Area, town centres and intensification corridors (A4006 Kenton Road)

Homes

  • Minimum of 2,285 additional homes in the period to 2041, principally through the development within the Northwick Park Growth Area (around 1,600 net additional homes), including specialist accommodation to meet identified demand.
  • Delivering mixed-use development on the Sainsbury’s Kenton Road site

Town Centres

  • Provide up to 900 sqm comparison goods retail floorspace, 500 sqm convenience goods retail floorspace, 100 sqm café and restaurant floorspace, and 100 sqm of drinking establishment floorspace. This should be directed toward Preston Road and Kenton town centres by 2028
  • Managing the likely overall reduction in length of the Preston Road and Kenton Town Centres

Community and Cultural Facilities

  • Protecting and enhancing playing field provision at Northwick Park, JFS School, Claremont High School, John Billam Playing Fields and Tenterden Sports Ground
  • Encouraging community use of Bryon Court Primary School’s sports facility

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 Northwick Park Growth Area where the following improvements to community and cultural facilities should be achieved:

  • Redeveloped and/or enhanced university hospital
  • Redeveloped and/or enhanced university facilities
  • Enhancements to Northwick Park Sports Pavilion
  • Improved setting of and better integration of open space within the site to Northwick Park

Employment and Skills

Supporting the local economy by:

  • Retaining and encouraging intensification of SIL land at East Lane Business Park
  • Promote employment growth/skills within the Northwick Park Growth Area

Open Space and Biodiversity

Maintaining and enhancing the quality of the well-used, cherished public parks, open spaces and biodiversity areas through:

  • Enhancements to Northwick Park, Woodcock Park and Pellat Road Sports Ground
  • Pursuing opportunities to increase the provision of pocket parks
  • Exploring opportunities to create a Local Nature Reserve at Ducker Pool
  • Protecting and enhancing existing wildlife corridors within this place
  • Improving the Capital Ring route within this place in the aim of creating a new Green Chain

Transport

  • Improving Northwick Park station to increase capacity and establish step free access
  • Implementing Cycleways to encourage uptake of active travel
  • Improvements to road junctions around Northwick Park Growth Area and station with the view of improving road safety
  • Improving walking and cycling infrastructure within this place, with a focus on improving pedestrian and cycling links between the four tube stations.

For more information please see the Brent Local Plan