Gardens at the front of Kings Court in Kings Drive, Wembley Park
Many readers will be familiar with the flats in King's Drive, WembleyPark, next to the old Brent Town Hall, now the Lycee Winston Churchill.
I am not sure of the exact age of the flats but Kings Court and Carmel Court were there in the late 1930s when the Town Hall was built.
Now the flats and the mature gardens that surround them are due for a change. Wisestates Ltd, a small family trust, who have owned the freehold since the 1980s, are putting forward plans for 28 additional homes on the estate including extensions, homes on the garage sites and one new block.
The grounds have been better maintained recently and there are some beautiful mature trees and lawns. Wisestates say that improvements to the exisitng flats and grounds will be paid for by the new homes.
Gardens at the back - a tribute to the foresight of the original architects
The garages are shrouded in black
The disused bomb shelter appears to be on the proposed site for the new block
The extensions will be built at the back of existing blocks
The consultation with residents has only just begun. Details: www.keimprovementprogram.com
12 comments:
Why do the new houses proposed not match the existing brick building? Why do they look like boxes?
Totally agree, cheap a nasty looking new buildings - why can't they match the style of the existing buildings??? There is no class anymore and these new builds will surely not last as long as the existing buildings.
The proposed buildings look bad because they are, they are cheap and nasty little boxes.
Permanent development is the risk here. Another job for Higgins perhaps? Our Labour Lords would no doubt love to tower it all and have done.
Agree, the original does look great quality brickwork and amenity spaces look way more cared about than even the newest blocks in SK.
I looked into buying a flat there last year. The management fees are high compared to what is offered.
The original wall belonging to Kings Court all along Forty Lane looks disgusting as it’s broken with large loose bits of bricks & concrete regularly falling onto the pavement where people have to pass. This is extremely dangerous, why haven’t the owners of the land addressed this? Trying to save money I assume & having no regard for public safety. It’s a disgrace & an eyesore.
Just buiild it and get on with it. modernity awakens !
New feudalism more like
So, the modern way of living to you is: To live in a shoebox in the sky, with high levels of air pollution, excessive road and rail noise levels, and flooding around the building. Of course that ignores the fact that the waterway around the building is polluted with human effluent. Who are you YIMBY fools?
To "Anonymous13 November 2025 at 16:30" who said "Just buiild it and get on with it. modernity awakens!" perhaps you'd like to clarify exactly where you live? Bet it's not in a flat like this or a tower block?
Modernity was how old South Kilburn Estate was planned 50's to 70's with so much new welfare state infrastructure investment including a 2ha new neighbourhood central park. Why this neighbourhood was then defunded to become permanent development zone/ brownfield land from 1979 to 2025 is a political decision.
Towers only is not modernity, it is very much post and at animal rights level in these population growth zones of precarity/ the worse the better by political design. Remains astonishing that Labour is so post, so inequalities and zoned city driven in its actual policies. No change.
The directors of 'Wisestates Ltd, a small family trust' are in fact directors of over a 100 plus property companies, with links to the one of the largest residential property groups in the country.
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