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FARADAYWORKS.COM WE NEED YOUR HELP IN DEFINING THE FUTURE OF A PIECE OF CHARLTON RIVERSIDE’S RICH HERITAGE. FARADAY FARADAY WORKS WORKS WE NEED YOUR HELP TO DEFINE AND SHAPE THE FUTURE OF The Wire FARADAY WORKS Workshops The Junction Box The Faraday Works site comprises four historic buildings in the north-eastern 37 Bowater part of the Westminster Industrial Estate Unity House Road in Charlton Riverside. We are making some changes to the planning application submitted at the end of 2019. Over previous public consultation sessions we’ve listened to and learned from your feedback, and we’re once again asking for your input in order to create an exemplar London neighbourhood. This booklet outlines our revised vision for Faraday Works – a heritage-led mixed use scheme that will bring new jobs, shops, homes and public space to Charlton Riverside. COME AND GET IN TOUCH WITH TALK TO US: YOUR FEEDBACK: We will be holding a series of online You can return the survey in and in-person events where you can the Freepost envelope provided meet the team and ask questions. or complete it on our website. Further details, including how Visit: faradayworks.com to register can be found on the Call: 020 3633 6625 back page of this brochure. Email: [email protected] 2 3 Current site plan FARADAY FARADAY WORKS WORKS OUR KEY AMBITIONS Our key principles and aspirations for the previous scheme remain in place, but have been improved and adapted both in line with your feedback and in response to the Grade II listing of 37 Bowater Road in 2020. We agree that Charlton Riverside needs to be truly unique and distinctive, with the site’s heritage being a key component of that identity. FARADAY These revised proposals are being brought forward by landowners Royal London and U+I, with Galliard Homes no longer involved in the scheme. WORKS OUR PRIORITIES ARE T0 An exemplar heritage-led scheme, 1 2 3 featuring new homes, retail and Safeguard the future of all Bring employment back Embrace Bowater Road’s the Listed and locally listed to the site with a diversity new public focus as a key route employment spaces, all wrapped buildings on site including of workspaces, delivering along the Thames Path 37 Bowater Road approximately 800 jobs in beautiful public realm. 4 5 Create a diverse Embed the unique community, with a mix history and character of of different types and the site into its future tenures of homes transformation 4 5 Sketch view of Faraday Works from BarrierPark. FARADAY FARADAY WORKS WORKS HERITAGE Our proposals are inspired by Faraday Works’ rich history – over 150 years of innovation and industry. We’re breathing new life into these iconic, ‘at risk’ buildings, returning the same spirit of enterprise to the site as it saw in its heyday. PRESERVING ALL SENSITIVE INSPIRED BY HERITAGE BUILDINGS RESTORATION RICH HISTORY Restoration of two locally Repurposing of all Exemplary heritage led listed buildings, the Wire buildings on site, giving restoration, and striking Workshops and Junction them a new lease of contemporary additions Box, restoration of Grade II life, full of the spirit link the past to the Listed 37 Bowater Road, of innovation and future on one of the and improvements to the enterprise in most important sites setting of locally listed their heyday. on Charlton Riverside. Unity House. Sketch of the Siemens Brothers Works in 1918-20, with the cable ship Faraday (1) in the foreground. 6 7 Likely by Edmund William Neale, a Siemens employee. FARADAY FARADAY WORKS WORKS 1880s 1881 A SITE STEEPED THE DYNAMIC TRIO LET THERE BE LIGHT IN HISTORY 1863 1874 MADE IN CHARLTON CALLING AMERICA Made in Charlton, Siemens brothers dynamos and high voltage cables helped electricity spread like lightning across London and eventually the entire UK. 1910 The Charlton factory was one of the LONDON CALLING leading manufacturers of arc lamps In 1863 Siemens Brothers boldly launched Siemens Brothers’ factory produced that were soon lighting factories, public one of London’s most innovative factories, thousands of miles of subsea telegraph buildings, streets and city squares. making state-of-the-art cables, before cables to connect the world using their Incandescent bulbs quickly replaced diversifying into telephones, measuring own cable-laying ship, the CS Faraday arc lights, but Siemens Brothers was apparatus, electric lamps and bulbs. – named after William Siemens’ mentor, again at the cutting-edge. Michael Faraday. 1920s 1930 BATTERIES INCLUDED IT’S GOOD TO TALK In 1912, Siemens Brothers’ success was helped by the Uniselector, an electro- mechanical stepping switch that automatically connected calls. It sped up telephone exchanges – but reduced the need for switchboard operators. 1944 1968 Early telephones and other devices Launched in 1930, the Neophone was the needed batteries to work, made right iPhone of its day. Developed by Siemens D-DAY LANDINGS LIFE AFTER SIEMENS Brothers for the Post Office, it was a here in Charlton. Siemens Brothers’ During the Second World War, Siemens In 1968, the board of directors made the big improvement on the “candlestick” batteries were also used for radios and developed a top-secret cable, the ‘HAIS decision to close the Woolwich factory, telephone that could be found in many in cars, which then vied with horses Cable’, for an oil pipeline across the rather than sacrificing any of their other homes and businesses across the country. and carts and electric trolleybuses English Channel to support the Allied factories. This dealt a devastating blow to in the busy London streets. invasion of Normandy in 1944. The the local community as it was the largest project was known as Operation employer in the borough, after the closure PLUTO (Pipe-Lines Under the Ocean). of Woolwich Arsenal a year earlier. 8 9 FARADAY FARADAY WORKS WORKS THOUGHTFUL REDEVELOPMENT IN A CONSERVATION AREA The Faraday Works site comprises four historic buildings in the north-eastern part of the Westminster Industrial Estate in Charlton Riverside. The area was in use as the Siemens Brothers Works until the late 1960’s, and the area to the south and east remains reserved for industrial uses. We are committed to ensuring existing neighbouring businesses can continue to operate unaffected by our proposals. Image of existing buildings on site today A KEY PART OF THE CHARLTON RIVERSIDE OPPORTUNITY AREA Faraday Works sits within the Charlton Riverside Opportunity Area, identified by the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the Greater London Authority as an opportunity area for a significant number of new homes and jobs. The Charlton Riverside Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) gives development guidance for the district, identifying Faraday Works as suitable for employment-led regeneration that can also include new homes. 10 11 FARADAY FARADAY WORKS WORKS WE’VE LISTENED TO YOUR FEEDBACK Our previous proposals were informed and shaped by two rounds of consultation in February and July of 2019, where we received a combined 72% support for regenerating Faraday Works. Subsequently, a planning application was submitted to Royal Borough of Greenwich in December 2019 (Ref: 19/4034/F) but no decision has been made. Shortly after submitting the application, 37 Bowater Road was designated Grade II Listed by Historic England, the only building on site planned for replacement. This means we’re no longer able to proceed with our plans as they stand. We’re bringing forward revised proposals for the site, that retain much of the ambition and ethos of the previous scheme, and centre the restoration of the historic buildings as a key piece of the Faraday Works story. WHAT YOU TOLD US PREVIOUSLY: BROADLY SPEAKING, ARE YOU 33% SUPPORT SUPPORTIVE OF THE PLANS TO REDEVELOP FARADAY WORKS? (COMBINED FEBRUARY AND JULY 2019 FEEDBACK) 10% We’ve the utmost respect 40% NEITHER SUPPORT STRONGLY NOR OPPOSE WHAT PEOPLE SUPPORTED SUPPORT for Charlton’s history, for the – Regenerating this largely derelict site – Restoration of heritage buildings 9% OPPOSE neighbouring businesses, for – Employment focus – Affordable housing 9% – Design approach combining heritage STRONGLY OPPOSE the masterplan and residents and contemporary architecture – everything we do is based on WHERE THERE WERE CONCERNS – Loss of 37 Bowater Road in the listening to and learning from you. previous plans – Building heights over ten storeys 12 13 FARADAY FARADAY WORKS WORKS PLACE Faraday Works will be a genuinely mixed-use community that returns life and industry to these buildings. A place where locals and visitors alike can benefit from shops, amenities, employment spaces and new homes, all wrapped in beautiful public realm. View of Bowater Road from December 2019 planning application showing the Wire Workshops (right) and Junction 15 Box (left). This element of the scheme 14 15 remains broadly unchanged. FARADAY FARADAY WORKS WORKS Unity House The Junction Box Faraday Building Bowater Building 37 Bowater Road A CONSIDERED 10 Eastmoor Workshops 8 DESIGN 1 8 NARRATIVE 5 10 2 3 8 OVERVIEW OF KEY DESIGN MOVES: The Wire Workshops 2 1 3 RETAIN AND IMPROVING CREATE CONVERT EXISTING PERMEABILITY AND FOCAL BUILDINGS CONNECTIONS POINTS The buildings are on A new north-south route will be We will create focal points the ‘heritage at risk’ register, opened up with access through for community uses off and without urgent work will the base of 37 Bowater Road, Faraday Way, around Unity deteriorate. We will retain allowing access to neighbours House and the existing cafe. and sensitively convert all the and for Bowater Road to New industrial uses will be Retained/Refurbished Existing Buildings buildings on site, reusing as become a pedestrian and cycle adjacent to the wider industrial much of the structure and priority street. This will create estate, and workspaces will line Proposed Extensions circulation as possible, and well-proportioned streets Bowater Road.