Queen's Park Station Development: Meeting

It's been a while since we wrote about the redevelopment proposals for Queen's Park station, over the border in Brent (see here and here).

Since the end of last year, the new Conservative-Lib Dem Brent Council have changed the planning specification for the development, with the original proposals for a 20/26-storey tower being scrapped in favour of a building no more than 12 storeys high.

Brent are overseeing a competition between four architects to determine how the new development will look. They have been holding a series of meetings in the last few weeks for residents to view the entries and to give their comments. The last meeting will be held tomorrow (Monday 23 July) at the Albert Road Community Resource Centre, Albert Road, NW6 from 7pm. Please do go along if you would like your views to be heard.

More information on the event and the competition entries can be found here.

Lee

Queen's Park Tower Meeting

Brent Council held a meeting on the proposed Queen's Park Tower last Thursday evening in Brondesbury Park.

Around 100 people turned up to listen to the changes that the new Conservative-LibDem Brent Council are proposing to make, following the creation of a stakeholder group to discuss the project. 2 representatives on the group are from Westminster, to ensure that our input is heard.

The new brief is still at the consultation stage, but Brent have committed to a development of no more than 12 storeys. Although the design is yet to be determined (probably via some kind of competition), we were shown pictures of likely impact from Carlton Vale, which shows a much less imposing building that before.

The changes to the Planning Brief are to be approved by the leadership of Brent Council on 13 November, with a consultation period afterwards (20 November - 11 January). A revised plan will be then drawn up in January, with the final version submitted once again to the leadership next February.

Although we remain concerned about the likely impact upon local services and the community, we recognise that the new Council have made a very bold step in reducing the height of the tower. We'll now await to see what comes from the consultation.

Lee

Queen's Park Tower Update

Earlier this year, Brent Council was gently persuaded by its residents (primarily by throwing out the Labour-run council and replacing them with a Conservative-Lib Dem one) that the proposal to build a 26-storey tower block at Queen's Park probably wasn't a good idea.

With the old proposal discarded, Brent is now consulting residents and preparing a new design brief for the Salusbury Road site, with the high-rise proposals hopefully killed off. Current plans are for a building no higher than 12 storeys at its tallest point, with the majority of the site being redeveloped at no more than 5 storeys.

Brent Council are holding a meeting to discuss the new proposals on Thursday 19 October at 7pm at Queen's Park Community School, Aylestone Avenue (see press release). Please do go along if you want to have your say.

Lee