The NHS Property Services has decided that the old hospital buildings at Wembley Centre for Health in Fairview Avenue/Chaplin Road is surplus to requirements and have put it on the market.
Wembley Hospital was opened in 1928 after some years of planning and fundraising and has an interesting history. You can read more on the website Lost Hospitals of London HERE. The facility has servved residents of the borough well over the years. The sell-off is part of the previous Government's One Public Estate policy that encouraged public bodies to develop underused land. The huge Northwick Park development is our biggest later example combining council, hospital, university and housing association land in one scheme.
Savills the agent state:
Key features
- Unconsented residential development opportunity within the LB of Brent
- Strong transport links with Wembley Central Station and Sudbury Town
- The proposed development site extends to 0.72 hectares (1.78 acres)
- For sale freehold with vacant possession
- The Property benefits from positive pre application engagement
- Offers are invited on a subject to planning basis
- The Pre app consists of a residential scheme of 94 units across 3-7 storeys
Local information
· The property is located within the administrative boundary of the London Borough of Brent. The site is not located in a Conservation Area and there are no locally listed or statutorily listed buildings within or adjacent to the site. A full planning history of the site is provided in a detailed note in the dataroom, provided by Avison Young.
· The site has development potential for residential use, but may suit other uses, subject to securing the necessary consents.
· Tate Hindle have produced a number of residential scheme iterations which have been tested at pre-application stage and with the Quality Review Panel. The schemes presented range from approximately 85 - 100 units in buildings of 3-7 storeys. A further scheme which responds to the comments made by the Quality Review Panel is available in the dataroom.
7 comments:
Beyond its protected conservation areas, desperate fire sale days for all existing public services infrastructure assets in poor quality housing massive population grow boroughs like Brent.
South Kilburn tall buildings housing zone in regeneration year 23, two health centres and 2 GP practices now gone forever, no primary health services is the position in 2024.
A shame this hospital isn't located in a Brent conservation area where its future would be a safeguarded and secure one.
Plenty of room for a couple of Tower Blocks
Wasn't this site part of the Titus Barham gift to local people and therefore protected under covenant?
Titus Barham left £20,000 in his will to Wembley Hospital (1937) but not a covenanted gift as far as I can ascertain. His total will (he was chair of Exoeess Dairy) was £500,000. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/37915905
Hi Martin, thanks for covering this sale. It was forthcoming wasn’t it as they shut the old ambulance station a few years ago, and the old hospital appears to have been shut over a decade ago.
A reader above mentions a loss of hospital but that isn’t really the case as the new Centre for Health & Care was built in replacement to hospital that was shut and now being sold. In addition, a Community Diagnostic Centre was also recently built to the back of the site.
Interestingly, Barham House at the back of the site is not being sold, and I wonder if they will bring that back into use for the community, as the NHS is “reformed” and more healthcare is delivered within the community (this appears to be the plan).
Do we know anything more about the previous hospital that stood there, and why it has been kept shut for so long and only being sold now? Is it normal for the NHS to hold land for such long periods? And will this site become more important now that healthcare moves back into community settings?
Another site in the Great Western tenanted car-free 'fast' housing towers no public services facilities ghost city building from Wembley to Westfield, from Brent Cross to Hounslow.
In Shanghai if you look from the Bund across river this authoritarian dream is already completed.
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