Officers of the Council, the Mayor of London and the independent Quality Review Panel have all confirmed that they are comfortable with the proposed scale and massing across the Site, which comprises Building A (23 storeys); Building B1 (29 storeys); Building B2 (20 storeys); Building C1 (8 storeys) and Building C2 (10 storeys); Buildings D1 (2 storeys) and D2(1 storey)
The petition on the Brent Council website LINK:
Petition to OPPOSE the Building of Nearly 1000 New Residential Units on Atlip Road
We the undersigned petition the council to Object the Planning Application (24/0410) before expiry date of 28 February 2025.
We, the undersigned, strongly object to Planning Application 24/0410 for the proposed redevelopment of Atlip Gardens in Alperton which proposes 885 residential units on Atlip Road. The development will negatively impact local residents and the wider community for the following reasons:
1. Loss of Light – The development’s height (up to 29 storeys) will cause severe overshadowing, reducing natural light to nearby homes, including Bigler Court and Dawson Court, contrary to BRE guidelines. Reduced daylight can lead to health impacts such as vitamin D deficiency, especially for brown and black residents at higher risk.
2. Overcrowding – The proposal includes 885 residential units, adding excessive strain on already stretched local services, including GP surgeries like Stanley Corner Medical Centre, schools, and public transport.
3. Parking and Traffic – The limited parking spaces will lead to increased congestion on surrounding roads, creating parking difficulties and worsening air pollution.
4. Noise Pollution – Construction noise will cause major disruption, particularly for those working from home or resting at home. Long-term noise from communal spaces will also impact residents’ quality of life and stress pets.
5. Loss of Facilities – The proposed demolition of the existing gym will force residents to travel 30–45 minutes on foot to the nearest affordable alternative, making fitness routines less accessible and harming physical well-being.
6. Flood Risks – Existing flood risks on Atlip Road, with depths up to 600mm, will be worsened by the development. New drainage systems offer no guaranteed protection against surface water flooding.
7. Air Quality – Construction dust and emissions pose health risks, especially for children, the elderly, and those with respiratory conditions, while long-term increases in traffic will reduce air quality further.
8. Privacy and Child Safety – Flats will overlook nearby homes, including Bigler Court, and Alperton Community School’s playground, raising safeguarding concerns for children.
27 comments:
The residents are right and deserve our support. This is a massive overdevelopment of this site and highlights the Labour obsession with excessively tall buildings that do not serve local needs.
Labour Councillors approve these and then wash their hands of the problems when the builders go bust or the design proves to be faulty. Just look at the disaster of the Zenith Tower on the corner of Ealing Road. Lifts fall down multiple floors, the intercom does not work and now the developer has told residents that they need to wrap the building up before they decide what to do with the cladding.
Flats selling for £750,000 each in these new developments are hardly intended for Alperton or Brent residents. Hardly surprising that one of the developments has a 'foreign sales office' at the entrance to the show flats.
The sooner that Labour stop being obsessed with pointless 'numbers' targets and built homes fit for what local people actually need the better.
The Council agreed and consulted a Masterplan 15 years ago before any of large Tower Blocks were built. The maximum height guide agreed at the time was up to 10 to 12 floors. Alperton residents were betrayed as soon as the current Labour Leadership took control and promises to residents were broken and 29 floor monsters took over.
All that Alperton residents get out of all of this is non stop traffic congestion in the whole area, parking problems and long waits for doctors & dentist appointments, a struggle to get their children into local schools and long delays to buses serving the area.
For years Anton Georgiou was the lone voice at Brent Planning Meetings championing the needs of Alperton residents. It is time the Petitioners and Alperton residents were listened to. ENOUGH is ENOUGH!
Some one should tell the objectors that a petition only counts as a single objection in planning terms. So pointless.
Fill the axonometric 3-1 with towers by 2050 and towers beyond, but what is the assisted living support infrastructure provision being designed in for these thousands of new tenanted towered houses?
Petitions count for little or nothing.
A more effective approach might be for the residents' group to invite comment on specific aspects, e.g. from the London Fire Brigade as to the safety of the proposed density and layout of the development, in terms of whether there is sufficient access and turning space for fire engines.
Has the Council carried out or commissioned an Equality Impact Assessment?
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While this petition may get a few hundred signatures, there'll be many tens of thousands of people in Brent wanting buildings like this to go ahead.
A few hundred homeowners who don't want to share their area & community with others and who don't realize that our housing crisis will not be solved unless we build build and build. My guess is that people who sign this petition will be homeowners with little or no mortgage there are older, happy smug and I'm pretty sure have one eye on their property values and have very little regard to the many tens of thousands in Brent who don't have a proper home and hundreds of thousands throughout this country!
I urge the council there to get this thing approved and start building as soon as possible
A fire statement had been submitted with the application.
Brent don't need to carry out an Equality Impact Asse for a third party planning application.
Sure people need homes BUT they need the right homes - we don't need more tower blocks thrown up with safety issues from the start and not enough local infrastructure at excessively high sale and rental prices.
Why do you assume that people signing the petition "will be homeowners with little or no mortgage there are older, happy smug and I'm pretty sure have one eye on their property values"??? This is dreadful stereotyping and blatant discrimination.
Why are these 'many tens of thousands of people in Brent' condemned into having to rent these little boxes, why are they no longer able to by a small home of their own. Flats will never meet the need of young people, it will only meet the need of the investors and those with their fingers in the till. It still appears (with a little digging) that many labour Councillors and their families are Landlords.
Agree totally!
Its about the life quality, safeguarding, wellbeing, greening and resilience of these new tenanted car-free tower houses Brent towns to be harshly lorded over. OK to approve fragments bit-by-bit, but how do families live, thrive and stay healthy in the giant new Great West London City. National Labour should support wellbeing infrastructure focus of precious resources away from conservation areas before Reform arrives and we return to 'the worse the better' planning of these tenanted population growth zones.
What is the political barrier to actual welfare state infrastructure planning, design and investment in Britain's tenanted car-free population towers of houses growth, growth, growth zones?
The Council need to stop selling off their stock at big discounts, audit the remainder of their stock and discover how many people living in Social Housing that no longer require, it or that tenants are in 3 and 4 bed houses when their children have grown up and left home and they are now renting out rooms for profit, and start insisting that Developers build homes that are needed.
Alperton residents need to vote for a new Lib Dem councillor next month, to stand up for their views on this proposed overdevelopment in their back yard.
There is a by-election in Alperton 18th February, local people cant continue to vote for the incumbents and expect a different result, time for change/reform
Alperton is national policy driven being part of the giant Great West tower hundreds city growth. Its happening, global investor tower lords, maybe time to engage with product consumers too?
The Reform Candidate was a Tory until a few days ago. What 'change' would it make to vote for him? He is an immigrant joining a party that hates immigrants.
Today the whole Bridgewater Road area in Alperton was virtually at a standstill because Affinity Water was digging one hole on the side of the road. Traffic was jammed up all the way down to Sainsbury's with buses stuck in the mayhem. Local roads in Alperton are often closed as a result of the building of the various tall Towers be it on the former bus garage site or elsewhere. The proposal for Atlip Road is one of many Towers in the pipeline for Alperton. There are approved plans for big Towers on the area behind Sunleigh Road and Woodside Avenue, while developments will take place on the closed PC World site, the demolished Pleasure Boat Pub, in Bridgewater Road behind the Towers going up already, the derelict pub and bank opposite Sainsbury's and now there is talk of Sainsbury's building on top of their car park. How much more should the residents of Alperton have to put up with - especially as very few of the new homes will be affordable to Alperton residents? Alperton is the home to thousands of local people who have every right to lead normal lives without having to live on a building site for the next 20 years with all the problems of noise, pollution and traffic congestion that this causes. The Labour Councillors and the Labour Mayor who are imposing this misery on local people do not live here and they should not be forcing ever higher Tower blocks on the people of Alperton just so that they can meet their unrealistic London wide housing targets. The blocks in Atlip Road closest to the proposed 29, 23 and 20 Labour Towers are occupied by Housing Association tenants in relatively low rise blocks. These residents should not have to put up with having their lives and environment blighted by the massive Towers that are being proposed. It is good that local people are making their voices heard. Why are Labour Councillors NOT listening to them?
An Equalities Impact Assessment (“EqIA”) is the procedural exercise by which the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) is assessed in the particular context in which it is engaged [in this case, a development proposal].
Governmental guidance [9] describes the EqIA as “a systematic and evidence-based tool, which enables us to consider the likely impact of work on different groups of people.”
Accordingly, such assessments need to be based on good evidence which includes listening to the views of the people who are likely to be affected.
How many homeless people or people on the housing waiting lists actually get homes in all these hugely expensive developments??? Very few we'd guess.
There are apparently 350 documents attached to this Planning Application (24/0410)
Information about Car Parking is very revealing.
"The development is proposed to be car-free, with the exception of 17 accessible parking spaces provided
for disabled users of the residential and co-living elements of the development, 1 accessible parking space
associated with the proposed community space, and two car club bays."
The 29, 23 and 20 storey tower blocks will include 885 living spaces, community spaces, commercial space, meanwhile space etc - and effectively no parking for visitors, deliveries or shoppers in Ealing Road.
Anyone who lives around Ealing Road knows exactly what this means. Referring to this massive development as "Car Free" is nonsense. It does not mean that the occupants of the 885 flats will have no cars and no visitors - they will have cars and they will have visitors and will simply park in nearby residential streets (including the Abbey Estate at the back) making life impossible for existing residents.
Anyone with any common sense that imposing something like this on the Ealing Road area in Alperton is simply crazy.
The residents here will have the tube station on their doorstep and many bus routes running nearby - they will also be within walking distance of 3 supermarkets - why will they need cars and parking spaces???
More important is the lack of extra GPs, dentists, school places, green space etc.
Anonymous 19.03 has obviously not tried using the Piccadilly Line recently or been stuck for hours on end on the buses running through Wembley High Road and Ealing Road or had to pay the ever increasing cost of public transport for a family of 4 or never gets visitors. Developers make big profits by cramming as many flats into as small a place as possible, save money and space to not having to provide car parks on the back of their tenants or flat buyers taking up parking spaces outside our houses. Only a fool would think that at least 100 of the 885 residents of the proposed Atlip Tower blocks will not have a car and there is nothing to stop them.
Don't buy an expressive flat in Alperton then buy a house with a garden and parking somewhere greener and more affordable - why would you want to live in tower block Alperton???
If you have a family of 4 you wouldn't have to pay for your kids to travel anyway.
Our family never had a car - we always used public transport because that's the good thing about our area there is great public transport and everything you really need is within walking distance. And we do get plenty of visitors!
Atlip Road has a car park for around 50 cars behind the Clay Oven. At midday today there were 40 cars parked there. The Boxing Gym opposite also has a small car park. The Gym was open and there were 7 cars parked outside. The existing business on the Ealing Road frontage also park along Atlip Road. So where would all those cars go if every piece of land is used for the 3 large tower blocks proposed? Local residents know the answer - it will be their roads that will be taken over by displaced cars and the many cars that those moving in 885 (yes 885) units proposed on this site. It is about time that the Labour Council changed their policy and stopped imposing these Massive Tower Blocks on our area, causing even more traffic congestion and parking problems and misery for existing residents of Atlip Road and surrounding area.
If the Clay Oven and the Gym are both gone due to the development these cars won't need to park there.
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