URBAN FARM BRENT A Green Regeneration For Staple’s Corner Industrial Zone Curl la Tourelle Head Architects & BURNT OAK/COLINDALE GROWTH AREA M A E R B A R N E T T S K L I S SILK PARK HENDON B R E N T HENDON WATERSIDE K O R O B I S L L D O The many water-ways of West London R I BRENT CROSS SOUTH have been born out of the central This speculative masterplan has O V R SIL E CIL OPPORTUNITY AREA London industrial canal network and been undertaken by Curl la Tourelle ES BRENT CROSS WEST R to provide the expanding population Head Architect’s Research Team in W T E N A E L R D and greenspaces of London with water collaboration with Archineers and 2020 B S T O N T E WEMBLY PARK N reserves. Engineering. E B R R O B O K R E V I R The benefit of these spaces Curl la Tourelle Head Architecture environmentally and socially has works to achieve exemplary, innovative, created attractive inner-city sites to sustainable and practical designs NEASDEN HIGH ST. WEMBLY GROWTH AREA developers and homeowners. through a creative dialogue with its clients, consultants. We’ve been looking at the area known This collaboration with Archineers, an WEMBLY STADIUM NEASDEN as the ‘Brent Corridor’, following international environmental design and 60 NEASDEN LANE the River Brent, from Hendon to engineering company focussing on WARRANTY HOUSE DOLLIS HILL WEMBLY CENTRAL Hanger Lane. The site has high- regenerative design. levels of poverty and pollution which is exacerbated by the dense network of We recently collaborated with Brent ST. RAPHEAL’S ESTATE R55 DUDDEN HILL roads and railways. Council in a major mixed use scheme, CHURCH END GROWTH AREA Moorland Gardens. Located at the In line with the Mayor of London centre of Stonebridge, the project STONEBRIDGE PARK Infrastructure Plan (Green proposes a new and bigger Adult CONDUIT WAY Infrastructure), we’ve developed a Education facility, 750 sqm of affordable speculative plan for an environmentally- workspace and 65 affordable homes. focused regeneration of the Staple’s ALPERTON GROWTH AREA STONEBRIDGE PARK DEVELOPMENT Corner industrial land next to the Brent Reservoir. HARLESDEN WILLESDEN JUNCTION Left - Map of Brent and Barnet ‘Opportunity’ KENSAL GREEN Corridor HANGER LANE L A N A PARK ROYAL C G R A N D U N I O N M A E R T S K L I S HENDON The Industrial land next to the Welsh Harp has been designated as Strategic HENDON WATERSIDE Industrial Land (SIL) Protection Zone for Industry, maintaining the legacy and LOCAL STAKEHOLDERS: value of inner-city production. BRENT CROSS SOUTH - W.H. Sailing Association - Welsh Harp Conservation We’ve developed 5 key priorities for to Group - Welsh Harp Joint the Staple’s Corner regeneration: Consultative Commiee AOD +45M K - Canal and River Trust O R O B 1. To enhance and preserve the I S L L D O environment of the Welsh Harp for the population of London Brent and STAPLES CORNER SITE prospective new investors to Brent and BRENT CROSS WEST Barnet. 2 IR O 1 V 6 2. To maintain the industrial use of the ER site, by proposing a programme of ES T R 4 8 Green Infrastructure development - in EN 3 7 BR line with national environmental and 5 urban policy. 9 AOD +30M T 3. To strengthen the connection across N E R INDUSTRIAL OWNERSHIP KEY: B the north and south sites, divided by the R E 1 Staples Corner West | 55,600 sq m V North Ciruclar I R E 2 JVC Business Park | 54,300 sq m R W S E E L 3 Harp Business Centre | 4,000 sq m V E L 4 Waterloo Road | 75,000 sq m - H 5 Wellington Park & Apsley | 16,000 sq m 4. To provide infrastructure to connect G I 6 Staples Corner Business Park | 55,000 sq m H 7 Atlas Business Centre & Oxgate House | 32,000 sq m the site to the new Brent Cross West 8 Oxgate Centre | 17,000 sq m Station. Including extending the local 9 Wing Yip Business Centre | 87,000 sq m London Cycle path route. 5. To work with local stakeholders NEASDEN HIGH ST. to provide a mixed tenure, carbon neutral housing development which can contribute towards offsetting the purchase of industrial land on the site. Left - Analysis of Staple’s Corner and the Welsh Harp area NEASDEN 60 NEASDEN LANE (Based on information provided in the Brent Industrial Audit) WARRANTY HOUSE INDUSTRIAL OWNERSHIP KEY: 1 Staples Corner West | 55,600 sq m 2 JVC Business Park | 54,300 sq m We propose a new agricultural-focused 3 Harp Business Centre | 4,000 sq m Brent would 4 Waterloo Road | 75,000 sq m masterplan, utilising urban food growing 5 Wellington Park & Apsley | 16,000 sq m become the 6 Staples Corner Business Park | 55,000 sq m technology as seen across European 7 Atlas Business Centre & Oxgate House | 32,000 sq m IR 8 Oxgate Centre | 17,000 sq m UK’s first centre O cities today. V 9 Wing Yip Business Centre | 87,000 sq m R for Hydroponic E 2 S E Bringing food production to the Farming - R T centre of London provides a number EN creating savings BR 1 of benefits and opportunities for on the 6 businesses and the community, with learning opportunities, readily available commercial 8 4 fresh produce and environmentally- import of food 3 7 friendly technologies. products to the 5 Relevant Case Studies: UK. 9 1. Agri Food Park 2. The Bridge Denmark / The Silicone Valley of USA / Pittsburgh, Seattle, Detroit, Alanta, VACANT PROPERTIES Agriculture (Danish Agriculture & Food Philadelphia, Houston Council) A 292,000m2 area comprising of: The Bridge acquires old industrial and - Green houses, Biodigesters, commercial properties, then turns them aquaculture, shops, showrooms into “eco villages” in the inner city. Their - Ecological regeneration properties are intended to be totally - Commercial space sustainable and self-contained mixed-use - Workshop space “Eco-Villages” with housing, commercial/ - Bio Engineering retail space, co-working, urban IR O - Food Manufacturing agriculture, innovation/education center V R - 75 food and agriculture companies and entertainment. E S E move in together on 110 hectares of R T farmland. REN B - 3,000 people, all employed within food and innovation. Visualisation of Agri Food Park of Visualisation Food Production Fact: The central part of Denmark is also known as the country’s ”pantry” – more than 33% of Denmark’s total export from the food industry is produced in this region! AGRI FOOD PARK Above - Analysis of Staple’s Corner potential vacant properties Below - Overlay of the Danish Agri Food Park (the ‘Silicone Valley of Agriculture) Aquaponic fish farming Hydroponic tomatoe crop ENERGY ENERGY WATERSIDE HOUSING solar panels Rain water capture and reuse BRENT RESERVOIR HYDROPONIC GREENHOUSES ENERGY EXCHANGED Rain water capture INDUSTRIAL and reuse ECOLOGICAL TREATMENT BASKETS R UNITS I A406 O V BIOGAS COLLECT AND USE R CONDENSATE E S GEO LOOPS EXCESS HEAT WATER SOURCE GEO LOOPS E HEAT R T EN BIOWASTE BR Feed the workers of ENERGY AND FOOD SYSTEM Heathrow Airport 5,800m2 What is Hydroponic Farming? process. Hydroponics is a non-traditional Our plan integrates the hydroponic method of farming, which is a method industry alongside a mixed-used of growing plants without soil, by using waterside-housing development TOTAL ARABLE AREA mineral nutrient solutions in a water with district energy centre and food- Feed population of Brent solvent. technology centre to meet the following 75,200m2 ambitions: It is primarily used vertically - whereby crops are stacked in greenhouses - 1. 2000 carbon-neutral homes HYRDOPONIC OUTPUT which results in high crop yields and 2. 80,000 sq m of agricultural space fast production - all year round! 3. 5,000 sq m of educational space 4. A Healthy-Eating Campus It is a high-quality and efficient farming 5. Leisure and Fitness Suites method, utilising renewable resources such as waste heat recovered from The efficiency of hydroponic systems biogas energy collected and condensed has been mapped on the adjacent from the waste and composting page. This map shows the total area needed to farm the recommended Left - Hydroponic Farming Outputs Area map intake of vegetables and protein to Above - Energy and Food System Diagram for feed the population of Brent - 330,000 Brent’s Pantry people - in just 75,200 sq m area of vertical hydroponic crops and aquaponic fish farming! SUPER CROSSING FOR CYCLISTS AND PEDESTRIANS RE T RY N G ST ENERGY CE REEN INDU ’S PAN ENT TRY BR YDROPONIC F H ARM LAND AL ION CENT CAT RE EDU BON-NEUTRA CAR L H OU SI NG Our vision for Staple’s Corner includes the regeneration of the waterside site to provide 2000 new, carbon neutral cross s land Pu h Is rifying Mars laminated timber (CLT) homes, set in an ecologically beneficial, purifying island of SUPER CROSSING reedbeds and marshland. B This is connected to the South site of ‘Brent’s Pantry’ a new hydroponic R farmland, food-production and education E centre, unprecedented in the U.K and N London. These sites are connected via T strengthened footbridge and cycle way. R ESE RVO I Left - Our vision for the speculative Staple’s R Corner regeneration Curl la Tourelle Head Architects &.