There is green space planned between the blocks but it will be very much shaded by the height of the development.
The illustrations below give an idea of the size of the blocks - tall and narrow.
Only 105 of the homes out of 1,151 are social rent (9.1%):
Table of the buildings, the number of storeys, height and tenure:
The development will certainly change the nature of Neasden, and Brent as a whole, being higher than any of the current buildings and prominent in the London landscape.
So far there are only 7 comments on the Brent Planning Portal with 453 documents. LINK
This application is obscene. And we have awful Towerblock Tatler, the Council Leader, and his family, plus the Labour Yimby's on the Planning Committee for the .....
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DeleteThis planning application should be refused for various social, environmental, public health and fire safety reasons.
ReplyDeleteShould be refused, infrastructure should in place prior to any development, not adding more to local services, especially the capacity of each building
ReplyDeleteFlippin ‘eck Can’t see these plans going ahead. Or a ruse by Conman Khan to announce new homes, knowing full well they won’t go ahead
ReplyDeleteIt will go through, you can be assured that the Labour YIMBYs (who wear Trump style baseball caps with Build Baby Build emblazoned on them) on the Planning Committee, ie: Kelcher, Johnson and Dixon, aided and abetted by the Leader's brother Saqib and brother in law Ajmal. Will this application pass? It will, without a shadow of doubt. Is B~ent Labour's Planning Committee B~ent? You decide on the evidence.
DeleteIt will go through, to many vested interests in the council hierarchy, planning committee, Brent Propery head.
DeleteThis is INSANE! Only 105 Social Rent Homes! This will probably reduce too during the time of the build of the project. The rest totally unaffordable vanity units! This is the wrong kind of place making - the local people desperate for affordable housing keep getting left out.
ReplyDeleteAgain infrastructure not put in place to deal with more people, local hospitals & schools not put in place, same road network.
ReplyDeleteNo thanks
ReplyDeleteThis is what I just put on the planning portal..which takes a bit of an effort to sign in to- It's not very powerful but the best I could think of...
ReplyDelete"Is this still planned??? I agree with what people have said in previous comments. In addition it would mean people living in those mega-blocks having very little connection with anything natural which is not conducive to good mental health. And it would make us all in the vicinity feel lessened by virtue of their enormous size. I live in Neasden - in Aylesbury Street. Quite near the drive-in McDonalds."
PS. It is a pity that there does not seem to be a way to copy and past onto this site.
A good proposed use of the land in an area that is crying out for major development. I fear this part of Brent is becoming more deprived, more segregated and more run down. It needs significant investment and people who will spend in the local economy.
ReplyDeleteHow will our already stretched emergency services deal with an emergency in these huge crammed in tower blocks??? How will they get casualties to distant A&E departments???
ReplyDeleteDoes no one in Brent Council Planning Department remember what happened at Grenfel Tower (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40301289?app-referrer=deep-link) or what just happened in Hong Kong (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/30/hong-kong-mourns-as-apartment-blaze-death-toll-rises)??????
Let's not do anything then. Let's not fly - in case the plane crashes; not drive - in case we have a road accident; not walk - in case we fall....
DeleteBet you are in a nice 4 bedroom house with a huge garden -
Deleteyou certainly won't be lying awake a night worrying about how to escape from a tower block!
https://t.co/vajU7t5KAU
ReplyDeleteWow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow
ReplyDeleteUnbelievable
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow
Unbelievable
Probably suggested by the renound Mr Lobbyist Kelcher
DeleteBrute Power. Where is the Opera House, where is the Central Park, the new station.....
ReplyDeleteGlobalists build baby build. Gov will issue and issue the visas needed to guarantee rents.
An othered country
As much as Brent needs affordable housing, this is a monstrous plan.
ReplyDeleteThe roads in that area are a nightmare most of the time.
This will ultimately cause more road closures and misery for commuters in the area.
Crazy idea!
It is a new town. What is the neighbourhood condition of life in this zone to be- is there space for a farmers market or a splash pool?
ReplyDeleteZero human empathy, designed by greed. Such no-to-social infrastructured new tower towns are precisely why many boroughs say NO to bad growth horror and chaos permanent developments zoned.
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow
ReplyDeleteUnliveable
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow
Unhuman
Can see some trees, mostly in meanwhile pots as they are as likely to suffer (and need replacement) as families to be warehoused here. Next pandemic 'stay local' should go well here, all lessons clearly learned by government.
ReplyDeleteThank you for creating rabbit hutches (Little Boxes) for residents, It's all down to you Cllr Towerblock Tatler (who will be despised for decades), Cllr Mo Butt who wants to be remembered (he won't be forgotten) and of course the Tory in disguise Cllr Kelcher, the lobbyist who is Chair of Planning and who is paid to make money for the rich. I could go on ............
ReplyDeleteIts still in effect a goods yard, rebuilt as a globalist market state tower warehousing of lives. Sink or swim, precarious and replaceable families.
ReplyDeletePoor Start by design, but Poor Start towers are highly lucrative for freehold Tower Lords.
ReplyDeleteWith Poor Start poverty traps in Brent growing, National Labour needs to make public the 6 borough Great West City Masterplan and thereby commit all future UK governments to high quality social infrastructure this car-free housing brave new world of tower hundreds.
A tower hundreds human wellbeing focused masterplan made public would be fitting memorial to Grenfell, rather than 2025 Grenfell silent demolition, nothing to see or learn there.
Brexit dividend
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