Plans announced for Kings Court and Carmel Court in Wembley Park

 

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

Sharp surprise in store for bottoms relaxing on a Wembley street

Fed up with people sitting on their boundary wall and dropping litter into the grounds, landlords of Kings Court, Kings Drive, Wembley have turned to nature for a remedy.

Planting of pyracantha shrubs all along the low street wall has now been completed. Pyracantha is known for its sharp thorns so once the shrubs have grown a little more anyone sitting on the wall will get a sharp jab up the backside.

Meanwhile just around the corner, the Winston Churchill Lycee, occupying the old Brent Town Hall, has planted the more benign English privet along its boundary wall with Forty Lane.