NE04, 05 and 06 in context
The application boundary
The proposed 'meanwhile' uses
Next week's Brent Planning Committee will consider an application from Quintain for meanwhile use of a large site in their Wembley Park estate. Existing permission dating from 2015 for development of sites NE04, 5 and 6 is now not expected to be delivered until 2028/29. The application is for sports facilities and public realm to be on place for 3 years.
The large area next to Union Park North on Engineers Way is currently surrounded by hoarding.
Quintain's agent explains:
To make use of this vacant and underutilised space in the interim, two meanwhile uses are proposed for outdoor sports (5 aside football) and an indoor leisure, events and entertainment venue both of which will complement and operate alongside the existing meanwhile events and entertainment venue (Bubble Planet). To ensure the successful operation of these meanwhile uses, and their integration, a comprehensive approach has been taken to the layout of the application site which will allow Quintain to maintain and manage areas of shared infrastructure, whilst the operators themselves will be responsible for the direct management of their respective meanwhile uses. Further information on the layout and operation of the application site is provided in the Design and Access Statement submitted with the application.
Proposals
The application site takes in land made up of former hardstanding from the site’s previous use as Yellow Car Park (and then later as a site compound for contractors). The application seeks permission for the interim use of this land for two meanwhile uses, each of which is to be located on a defined plot, which will have an allocated back of house area. Supporting these uses will be an internal one way access road which will make use of two existing site accesses on Fulton Road which will be configured to be entrance and exit only. The new access road will include provision for 6 no. drop off spaces and will also allow access to an internal car park that is to provide 6 No. parking spaces for accessible parking only. A shared area of public realm will sit between the plots providing space for pedestrian access, visitor cycle parking, seating and space to allow for transition of visitors in terms of arrival, rendezvous and departure. An external hoarding line will be maintained on the site’s boundary with Union Park North, and to Tippatone Walk. There is a small section of existing timber fence defining the edge of the Site as it abuts Fulton Road, this is to be replaced with palisade fencing to match that already existing in this area (and which is to be repaired).
12 comments:
Is the adjacent park also meanwhile tower land or is that strong protected green space?
Look at the top image and fill it with towers next 50 years. I was at Ealing Broadway and they have new car-free ten floor housing blocks respectfully set-back with new direct walking routes to station. Building tall towers harsh to existing high street is a very Wembley new brutalism.
Wembley/ South Kilburn like Kilburn need Neighbourhood Plans and Neighbourhood Forums, if quality growth with local inclusion is to in reality happen.
For remember Reform lurks and all this social safeguarding needs to be put in place FAST.
you'd think quintain would learn from the hotel development....providing another temporary use for people to use and then object when quintain decide to close it to build the permanent permission on the land.
The northern section of Union Park is a permanent fixture, part of a promised seven acre (once wrongly described as seven hectares by the then Lead Member for Regeneration, Cllr. Tatler) public park to be provided by Quintain in return for their planning consents (although you might think, from looking at it, that the southern half of the park is part of the private grounds of Quintain's Canada Gardens development).
Part of the "meanwhile" site was originally meant to be a primary school, serving the families who were expected to live in the (up to six storeys high) family-sized homes which were part of an earlier "Masterplan" for Wembley Park.
That all changed when Quintain submitted its 2015 version of its masterplan, which Brent unfortunately approved. The school (which Quintain had promised to build as part of Wembley Park's social infrastructure) was moved to a site on the York House car park, but was never built (because of falling pupil numbers). And the youth centre that Brent's Cabinet said would be built there instead has yet to materialise.
The "meanwhile" site has outline planning consent for at least two more towerblocks of flats, but Quintain either doesn't have the money to build them at the moment, or there is not enough demand for their "unaffordable" homes to make it worthwhile for Quintain to build them in the current economic climate,
Yes I agree that we need to protect our remaining open green spaces for various social and environmental reasons.
Another 'sweetner' so that Brent Council and local residents don't fight against their hotel plan by the civic centre?
editor: what are the green councillors up to? Most things are about labour
I hard agree with Paul Scott, we need more Green spaces, and less Quintain imo.
Yes - the quality of green spaces in Wembley is insufficient. There's enough high rise but insufficient youth facilities and green areas.
The populations of growth tower zones Brent are by power considered not worthy of high quality green spaces. Labour and Reform policy agree on meanwhiling of all space in these zones..... a masterplan can always be replaced by another masterplan or better still have a 51 metre tall building brutally layered on top of it by higher tier Local Plan policy.
Wrong sort / no children live in the growth zones. Children live in conservation areas of family houses where high quality green spaces and welfare state infrastructure is amplified and grown. Two England's.
Why not make this space a highest quality City Park to scale. In C19 that was cool governance.
Let developers go a bit taller- to then allow parks, squares and movement routes- to scale. Of course a final plan would be needed for that to happen rather than plans upon plans upon plans made by developers. Its all meanwhile sites 'we can do whatever we colonial want' is greed and social abuse built.
The logic of obvious local need or the logic of permanent development buccaneers.
From Brutalist architecture of the 1960's and 70's to Brutalist zones 1980's onwards, ever growing and accelerating as THE political project. Assisted living was policy post 1945, Labour started this term in 2025 pitching assisted dying (zones)- of no welfare state infrastructure or life supports, where population is being most densely grown towered-up .
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