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Wednesday 7 October 2020 CLEAN MACHINES The lowdown on air purifiers: Page 18 Join the creatives moving west Europe’s biggest regeneration scheme with 45,000 new homes PAGES 16 & 17 ADRIAN LOURIE homesandproperty.co.uk BEST LIFESTYLE NEWS SITE Winner 2020 16 WEDNESDAY 7 OCTOBER 2020 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | New homes Be part of the future of west London The biggest regeneration zone in Europe is being powered by the transport superhub where Crossrail will connect to HS2. Anna White reports on the Old Oak Common and Park Royal plan UROPE’S largest Notting Hill Genesis and Queens Park Rang- regeneration zone, ers Football Club, is under construction Old Oak Common between Willesden Junction and North and Park Royal in Acton. The £175 million mixed-use scheme west London will see will deliver 600 homes, including 40 per the transformation cent at lower cost. To register interest email E of an industrial [email protected] wasteland of old logisitics sheds, goods yards and piecemeal WHERE ART, EDUCATION buildings into new neighbourhoods with up AND INDUSTRY MEET to 45,000 new homes. This challenging Hidden in the 1,100-acre Park Royal indus- placemaking project is being powered by trial estate in North Acton is a rapidly the promise of Crossrail. expanding bank of affordable studios, teem- This is where the Elizabeth line will con- ing with young creatives. Row upon row of nect to HS2 at the beginning of a 15-mile workshops form part of the Republic of Park development corridor that leads out to Royal, run by architect Johnny Brewin. Hayes. According to new research by Savills Park Royal is a protected industrial area, and Molior, close to 25,000 new homes are meaning the buildings cannot be converted under construction or in planning for the into homes. But inevitably, prices for prem- strip that runs either side of the A40. ises tend to go up. Brewin, who has moved Meanwhile, London Mayor Sadiq Khan has his operation from Hackney Wick, is trying called for another 20,000 homes to be deliv- to put a cap on rents for local talent. Many ered as part of the Old Oak Common and of his resident artists moved from east Lon- Park Royal local plan, which is due to be don to west because workspace is more resubmitted at the end of the year. affordable. “We are not against gentrification The largest number of new homes on the but it must work for existing residents as way are at Willesden, Old Oak Common, well as those moving into an area,” he says. Acton and Shepherd’s Bush — on the cusp Park Royal artists include Pie Herring, who of inner London. Homes on 126 sites across challenges female stereotyping through her the whole stretch should be available to buy work, muralist Richard Wilson, who spray within the next four years, research shows. painted a 65ft portrait of actor Will Smith on a wall in Philadelphia, and graffiti artist EAST VERSUS WEST David Samuel, who runs creative agency The regeneration of west London was over- RareKind. shadowed by the Olympic-led rebirth of the North Acton is also home to students at East End. “East London was a blank canvas Imperial College London which feeds into and therefore relatively straightforward,” its new campus at nearby White City. Impe- says Nick Vaughan of Savills. rial is expanding its student village and “West London is far more complicated. Brewin plans to launch a Park Royal gallery Over the past five years there has been to display local art, connecting with students piecemeal development woven around and residents. “Central Saint Martins art existing residential pockets and protected college has created real character and iden- industrial estates, all crisscrossed by major tity at King’s Cross,” says OPDC’s Liz Peace. Thinking of roads and railway tracks.” “We hope education facilities and museums The redevelopment of Old Oak Common will be drawn to Old Oak Common, too.” moving? Start and Park Royal, at the epicentre of west London regeneration, has suffered from SETTING NEW LIVING your search on huge problems. Liz Peace, chair of the Old STANDARDS FOR LONDON Oak Common and Park Royal Development Rising up between the student blocks and Corporation (OPDC), says they’ve never had the industrial estate is a new cluster of res- the funding or national imperative of the idential towers by City & Docklands. The Olympics. But Crossrail has given the project tallest of the four buildings, One West Point direction. “When people will get off HS2 or will reach 54 storeys and each apartment Crossrail at Old Oak there must be an incred- — regardless of price — has a deep balcony. ible new neighbourhood waiting for them.” Top: Oaklands village is being delivered by Notting Hill Genesis and Homes will come with amenities under- This year, despite lockdown, the first new Queens Park Rangers FC, between Willesden Junction and North neath. There will be a Tian Tian restaurant neighbourhoods are starting to take shape. Acton. The main contractor is Vistry Partnerships; above, the and supermarket, private cinema room, Oaklands, a “village” being developed by transformation of Old Oak Common and Park Royal is under way coffee shop, gym, a co-working space and a EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 7 OCTOBER 2020 17 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by New homes | Homes Property PHILIP DURRANT, HS2 LTD, ADRIAN LOURIE HS2 LTD, DURRANT, PHILIP Park Royal creative: above, artist Pie Herring challenges female stereotyping through her work (pieherring. com) From £390,000: right, new homes at Jigsaw in Ealing will be set around landscaped squares and a boulevard with cafés Below right: Viscount House, part of the new Regency Heights residential district at Park Royal by Fairview New Homes (fairview. co.uk) YouTube and recording studio for those From £590,000: EALING IS READY FOR CROSSRAIL the blighted Green Man Lane estate, a Sev- Barratt Homes development in Nestles Ave- entrepreneurs launching their own products apartments at The upgrade of three stations into new enties development that was crime-ridden, nue, will soon open up to the public the and services. Planned are a children’s soft 54-storey One West Crossrail hubs in Ealing has driven signifi- lacked family homes and was cut off from south side of the canal, which was previously play room and a doggy day care facility. In Point in Zone 2 cant change to high streets and shops in this the rest of Ealing. It has been demolished shut off. The scheme will deliver 1,386 new summer the residents’ long bar will open North Acton. All flats leafy borough, which is evident in property and 770 homes rebuilt for the existing com- homes, green spaces, parks and play areas, out into a garden with fire pits and seating. have deep balconies values. The average house price around West munity and new buyers. a 200-metre running track and a watersports “Hopefully residents will feel the commu- and the scheme will Ealing is £661,737 and £714,600 around When completed in 2022, Jigsaw will be centre. Prices start from £325,000 for a nal spaces are part of their home. I want this include a private Ealing Broadway. Prices are cheaper further set around landscaped squares, a boulevard one-bedroom apartment. There are also building to set a new standard of residential cinema, a restaurant, in, at Acton, and further out, in Hayes. of cafés and a new primary school, along two- and three-bedroom apartments for sale. living in London,” says Gary Sacks, boss of co-working space, a New developments have been springing with sports facilities. Prices start from Call 0330 1277513. City & Docklands. Prices from £590,000 gym, children’s soft up in this popular part of west London over £390,000. Call 020 3773 7822. The record company EMI’s former HQ in (onewestpoint.com). play area, a doggy the last five years. Prices for a new apartment Hayes is being redeveloped into an 18-acre One West Point is the first new residential day care facility and a start from £729,000 at Filmworks, the con- BUYING AT THE END mini district. Called The Old Vinyl Factory, scheme in this North Acton neighbourhood supermarket version of an old Art Deco cinema. The OF THE CORRIDOR it has 630 homes alongside restored Art but there are more to come. Planning has scheme is built around a new public square, Once Crossrail arrives into Hayes & Harling- Deco buildings set to become boutiques, been approved to turn the Carphone Ware- with shops, restaurants and an eight-screen ton station it will put Hayes on the map. But work studios, bars, cafés, a cinema and a house building into 800 units, while funding cinema. On Friday the restored façade is it’s not the town’s only asset. Much is also museum. Homes are available to rent in is being raised for a two-tower hotel with 702 being unveiled by developer St George. Call being made of Grand Union Canal, which Material Store at The Old Vinyl Factory for flats and 159 hotel bedrooms. 020 8023 6293. The Jigsaw scheme replaces snakes through the town. 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