Demolition starts soon on Wembley Park College of NW London Campus. You may be suprised by what will replace it.

Next to Olympic Way and opposite Brook Avenue and Wembley Park Station the College of North West London, Wembley Campus, is familiar to local residents and generation of students. The Wealdstone Brook runs through the grounds and there were trees and shrubs, and a bridge over the brook, that formed a 'secret garden' amongst the rising concrete. On the other side of the road the brook is thickly wooded on both banks - few ever peer over to see the brook rippling under the road.

The pictures below are of the grounds and college as it was until very recently:

 

United Colleges have sold on this site and that of Dudden Hill for development and a new merged college is being built at the junction of Olympic Way and Fulton Road. Demolition of the former Network Housing office on that site is underway.

Now the College site is surrounded by black hoarding on Bridge Road/ Empire Way. Demolition is  also on its way.

 

From the Bridge Road memorial space vantage point  (near where the bus stop used to be) you can see the extent of clearance. Will the Wealdstone Brook be proteected from pollution during the demolition and building phases during the development phase?

 

There appears to be only one tree remaining. So what will be built on the college site?

 A 31 storey and 18 storey building (they've kept the tree)

 

There is also an approved development in the pipeline of the  Stadium Retail Park, McDonalds and the Troubadour Theatre that are next to the above building.

The overall changes are illustrated by the image below (I have superimposed the buildings on the college site) where you can barely see Olympic Way.

 

The new college building will be on the site of the ex Network Housing HQ (the brown building at the the junction of  Fulton Road and Olympic Way) where work has already taken place removing some trees.

 

The design of the new college building is in contrast to the high rises that will surround it: