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ALFA LAVAL TOWER GREAT WEST ROAD . BRENTFORD . TW8 Landmark Development and Investment Opportunity Indicative boundary Executive Summary Location Connectivity Prominent site overlooking the Great The Alfa Laval Tower is a landmark site The property benefits from good transport West Road/M4 flyover. located in Brentford in West London, links with nearby Brentford Railway station approximately 7.5 miles from Central approximately a 10 minute walk away, which Vacant 12 storey tower above basement in shell condition. London, prominently overlooking the is within Travelcard Zone 4 and is a South Great West Road/M4 flyover and offering Western Railway operated service on the Total site area of approx. 0.61 acres extensive frontage. Hounslow Loop Line. The station provides (0.25 hectares). regular direct services into Windsor and The area is a thriving commercial, office Allocated for mixed use development Eton Riverside (c. 36 minutes), Clapham and residential area within a highly sought alongside wider Alfa Laval site, which Junction (c. 19 minutes) and London after borough of West London, bordered may include commercial or residential Waterloo (c. 32 minutes). by Ealing to the north, Kew and the River uses, subject to obtaining the Thames to the south, Chiswick to the east Boston Manor Underground station is a c. necessary consents. and Hounslow to the west. 25 minute walk to the north west of the site Planning consent in place for and is served by the Piccadilly Line, which The property benefits from being within car showroom. connects to Heathrow Terminals 2 and 3 (c. close proximity to local amenities including 17 minutes), Green Park (c. 29 minutes) and Planning consent in place for 165 sq a range of bars, restaurants and cafés m (14.32m high by 11.52m wide) static King’s Cross St Pancras (c. 35 minutes). located along Brentford High Street and LED advertising board . is also a short distance from the River The site neighbours the Great West Road Offers invited for the freehold interest Thames. (A4)/M4 flyover, which connects to via informal tender. Junction 2 of the M4, with Chiswick and Hammersmith to the east and Maidenhead, Reading and Bristol to the west. Additionally, London Heathrow Airport is a c. 15 minute car journey away and is one of the world’s busiest international airports, providing connections to numerous destinations across the globe. Indicative boundary A414 A10 Chipping Ongar Bovingdon A1(M) Kings Langley M25 Cheshunt Epping HERTFORDSHIRE Potters Bar Waltham Abbey M25 M1 ESSEX Theydon Bois Radlett Eneld Lock Hadley Wood A1 ENFIELD A10 Loughton Cockfosters M11 A41 Barnet Eneld Watford A12 M25 Winchmore Hill Chingford Oxhey Chigwell Borehamwood Palmers Green Brentwood Rickmansworth Bushey Buckhurst Hill Grange Hill Friern Barnet Edmonton Hainault Stanmore Edgware BARNET Harold Hill Mill Hill A406 Highams Park Chelfont Hale End St Peter Colindale HARINGEY Finchley Higham Woodford REDBRIDGE Collier Row Wood Green Hill HARROW Tottenham Gidea Park Northwood Queensbury Clayhall Muswell Wealdstone Hendon A12 Romford East Hill Hornsey WALTHAM Barkingside Finchley FOREST Walthamstow A127 Crouch End Chadwell Harrow Gerrards Cross Kingsbury Gants Hill Heath Kenton Newbury Hornchurch Golders A12 Highgate Park Upminster Upper Clapton Green Stoke Newington Pinner Ruislip Leytonstone HAVERING Harrow BRENT on the Hill Goodmayes Leyton A1 Highbury Becontree HILLINGDON HACKNEY Ilford Elm Park Sudbury Neasden M40 Kentish Lower Hampstead Forest BARKING & Town ISLINGTON Clapton Gate A406 Cricklewood A10 DAGENHAM Wembley A41 Canonbury Alperton Station Hackney Northolt Willesden Camden Town Stratford Barking Upton Dagenham Uxbridge Kilburn A13 Kensal Green Islington NEWHAM East Ham A40 St John’s TOWER Bow Iver Park Royal Station CAMDEN Perivale Maida Vale Shoreditch Hillingdon Wood HAMLETS Rainham M25 Heath Plaistow Yeading Stepney South North Ealing Station Greenford Marylebone Limehouse CITY OF Ockendon Beckton Strand Hayes LONDON Ealing Common Station Notting Hill CITY OF 6 Poplar M25 Southall Knightsbridge Thamesmead EALING WESTMINSTER Rotherhithe A312 Acton South Ealing Station Acton Town Station Shepherd’s Gloucester Road Ealing South Kensington Bush Bermondsey Isle of Northfields Station Westminster Boston Manor Station Woolwich 2 Hammersmith Station Deptford Dogs Turnham Green Station Hammersmith Earls Court Plumstead ALFA LAVAL Barons Court Station A102 TOWER KENSINGTONEarls Court A4 West Kensington & CHELSEA SOUTHWARK Charlton Pureet Chiswick M4 Kew Bridge Station Erith Grays Brentford Vauxhall Greenwich Brentford Station 1 HAMMERSMITH Syon Lane Station Chiswick Station A4 Barnes & FULHAM Kennington Heston GREENWICH Hounslow West Station M4 Hounslow East Station 5 A2 East BEXLEY Clapham Junction Fulham Blackheath HOUNSLOWIsleworth Station Heathrow Terminal 5 Hounslow Central Station Barnes Bridge Station Wickham Heathrow Kew Battersea Terminals 2 & 3 Camberwell Hounslow HEATHROW Hatton Cross Station Isleworth Barnes Station Lewisham A2 3 Putney Wandsworth LAMBETH Putney Station Dartford Hounslow Station Peckham A2 Heathrow Terminal 4 Bexleyheath A205 Wandsworth Town A3 Brixton A30 Clapham LEWISHAM St Margarets Richmond Whitton WANDSWORTH Dulwich Eltham Feltham Feltham Station RICHMOND UPON THAMES A205 4 A214 A316 Tulse Hill Ham Forest Hill A30 A23 Catford A2 Twickenham Sidcup 1. Premier Inn London Brentford 11. Brentford Community Stadium (under Staines Egham 1. Brentford Railway station approximately a 10 Streatham 2. Bellway completed development construction by Eco World London to deliver minute walk. new stadium and 910 residential units) New Malden Crystal 3. Energie Fitness Brentford A308 2. Boston Manor Underground station is aTeddington c. 25 Penge 12. Sega Europe Wimbledon A20 4. Aparthotel Adagio London Brentford minute walk to the north west of the site. Palace 13. Apt Living (under construction by Paradigm A3 A24 5. Hotel Novotel London Brentford 3. London Heathrow Airport is a c. 15 minute Chislehurst Land to deliver 292 residential units) Hampton Kingston 6. Green Tomato Cars car journey away. A308 upon Thames Upper Norwood 14. Griffin Park (Eco World London benefit from 4. Windsor and Eton Riverside (c. 36 minutes). 7. Barratt London completed development planning permission for 75 residential units) MERTON 8. Topps Tiles and Toolstation 5. Clapham Junction (c. 19 minutes). 15. 10 minute walk to Brentford Railway station Raynes Park Beckenham Swanley 9. West London Audi 6. King’s Cross St Pancras (c. 35 minutes). Sunbury East KINGSTON Bromley 10. Mercedes-Benz Brentford Virginia Water Mitcham Molesey UPON THAMES Thornton Indicative boundary Morden Petts Wood Heath Surbiton M3 Chertsey A309 West Wickham Eynsford Hayes Orpington Worcester Park BROMLEY Walton-on- A24 Croydon A232 Carshalton Thames Esher Cheam Keston Sutton Chobham Weybridge Chessington New Addington M25 Claygate A232 A21 M20 A243 Ewell SUTTON CROYDON Shoreham A3 Downe Oxshott Epsom Purley M25 KENT Cobham A23 Kenley A24 A240 Biggin Hill Stoke D’Abernon Warlingham Woking Ashtead Banstead Coulsdon M26 A22 Burgh Heath Ripley A217 A3 Tadworth SURREY Leatherhead Caterham Sevenoaks M25 Fetcham East Horsley Kingswood M25 Westerham West Clandon Walton on the Hill Oxted Merstham A21 Guildford Godstone Reigate Redhill Dorking M23 Bletchingley Description The Alfa Laval Tower lies within the wider Alfa Laval site, which has now almost been built out with the exception of the consented office scheme. The property has been vacant since 1996 and has solely been used for advertising with large fixed banners attached to the western elevation of the building fronting the M4/Great West Road. The building itself comprises a 1960’s concrete frame construction extending to 12 storeys above basement. The basement includes a car park providing access to the adjoining Premier Inn. The tower is in shell condition and has been prepared for demolition. The total Gross Internal Area (GIA) of the building comprises approximately 6,226 sq m (67,017 sq ft) of former office accommodation. Development Potential 1. Premier Inn London Brentford The property is located in the London The site occupies a prominent position 2. Wider Alfa Laval site planning consents to deliver circa 4,677 sq m (50,343 sq ft) office Borough of Hounslow and currently along the A4 and, as such, has a long building on this land parcel. benefits from a site allocation for mixed history of Advertising Consents. The site 3. A2 Dominion affordable housing completed use development alongside the wider currently benefits from extant planning development 4. Bellway Homes completed development Alfa Laval site. The majority of the wider permission for a 165sqm (14.32m high site has been redeveloped, with the by 11.52m wide) static LED advertising exception of the Alfa Laval Tower and board along the western side of the the consented office scheme identified building which was granted at appeal. as number 2 on the image overleaf. The permission remains live until 15th January 2043 (25 years). The building currently benefits from extant planning permissions which There is no policy protection afforded would allow either change of use to a to the existing building and demolition 180 bed hotel (C1), or change of use and is therefore supported in planning part redevelopment for a car showroom terms. There may be an opportunity as (Sui Generis). The latter will expire on the part of any redevelopment scheme to 17th August 2019 if it is not implemented. accommodate additional height on the We understand the