Policy information sourced from the Brent Local Plan

BP7 South West

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

Character, Heritage and Design

  • Conserving and enhancing heritage assets including the Shree Sanatan Hindu Mandir on Ealing Road and the listed buildings and gardens of Barham Park.
  • Respecting the low-rise character of the Sudbury and Wembley suburban residential areas, through focusing tall buildings (as defined in Policy BD2) in the Growth Areas of Wembley and Alperton. In the intensification corridors of A404 Harrow Road and A4005 Bridgewater Road/Ealing Road, A4089 Ealing Road, A404 Watford Road and Sudbury and Ealing Road town centres buildings around 15metres (5 storeys) could be appropriate.
  • Creating a strong link between Wembley and Wembley Park town centres through public realm and junction improvements and new development to the east of Wembley Triangle, forming a continuous active frontage between the two centres.

Homes

  • Minimum of 10,600 additional homes in the period to 2041 through residential-led mixed-use development within the Alperton Growth Area (minimum 6,800 additional homes) and the Wembley Growth Area (that also crosses into the Central Place), the Ealing Road and Sudbury town centres and intensification corridors.
  • Delivering a minimum of 245 new homes in the Sudbury Town Neighbourhood Plan area in the period to 2041.
  • Co-locating residential uses on areas of industrial and employment land within the Alperton Growth Area, taking advantage of areas well-served by public transport. Where alternative uses are co-located on industrial sites this will be as part of a comprehensive regeneration scheme which ensures a net increase in industrial floorspace.

Town Centres

  • Protecting and enhancing the retail function of Wembley town centre by clearly defining acceptable ground floor uses and maintaining a strong retail core on the high road.
  • Providing a quality, diverse retail offer in Wembley town centre by providing for an additional 2,100 sqm of additional comparison retail floorspace, and 4,300 sqm of convenience retail floorspace to 2028, in addition to that already existing and consented.
  • Promoting uses which enhance and diversify the cultural and commercial leisure offer, particularly those which provide ‘family entertainment’.

Employment and Skills

  • Encouraging the intensification of existing Strategic Industrial Locations and Locally Significant Industrial Sites around Alperton.
  • Introducing mixed-use development to industrial sites around the junction of Ealing Road and Bridgewater Road.
  • Increasing the supply of workspace in Wembley and Alperton including affordable workspace as set out in Policy BE3

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 and community facilities.
  • Providing significant new social infrastructure as part of the Northfields development including a new health centre.
  • Improvement and enhancement of the Vale Farm and its Sports Centre

Open Space and Biodiversity

  • Supporting all development with a canalside frontage to create better pedestrian/cycle links along the Grand Union Canal in Alperton
  • Maintaining and enhancing Barham Park and the listed gardens, creating a well-used public space
  • Providing high-quality open space as part of major developments, accessible to both new and existing communities

Transport

  • Supporting permeable development in Alperton that contains pedestrian and cycle routes to easily move through the area, including the creation of an east-west cycle route and pedestrian access along the canal
  • Prioritising public transport use and associated improvements in the Alperton and Wembley Growth Areas
  • Supporting a new or enhanced crossing to connect the Northfields Industrial Estate regeneration to new development on both sides of the River Brent and Grand Union canal.

For more information please see the Brent Local Plan