14 Designed by treAsures of hArrow mAp A visitor's guide to the key new regeneration developments, by Designed WEaLdstone architectural highlights and award-winning food and drink establishments in the London Borough of Harrow. Add your own Treasures of Harrow at buildingabetterharrow.co.uk or send them to [email protected] hARROW COUNCIl open house lonDon locAl fooD & DrInk REGENERAtION PROJECTS recommenDeD buIlDIngs estAblIshments Harrow Council is leading a Open House London is the Feast at a selection of our 3 regeneration programme that capital's largest architecture independent food and drink will change the landscapes of event which takes place in the establishments with influences both Harrow and Wealdstone third weekend of September each from around the globe, and help 10 town centres and bring forward year. The event aims to promote celebrate Harrow’s diversity while thousands of new homes, shops, awareness and appreciation of boosting our local economy. offices, schools, public spaces good design by offering access and green spaces, cultural and to buildings and sites not leisure facilities, transport normally open to the public. 15 improvements and public 16 & 17 September 2017 facilities, like health centres. openhouselondon.org.uk 2 A4 hARROW COUNCIl public realm and the transport Private SiteS open house lonDon REGENERAtION PROJECTS network, the design process has recommenDeD buIlDIngs involved extensive consultation 12. Gayton road Harrow & Wealdstone 1. poets’ corner with the local community including Gayton Road Car Park, A. Canons Park Harrow Civic Centre, productive workshops. The project Gayton Road, Harrow HA1 2HB Canons Park, Station Road, Harrow HA1 2XY will start on site during 2017 with The Council’s development Edgware HA8 6RH The flagship project in Harrow’s completion planned for 2019. partner will build 358 new homes, Grade II listed historic landscape regeneration programme, the site is transforming a council car park on containing several listed buildings, currently the civic centre and offices 6. Waxwell Lane the edge of Harrow town centre. including an 18C ‘temple’ and walled for Harrow Council, located close to Waxwell Lane Car Park, The scheme is conceived in the kitchen garden, converted in 1937 Harrow and Wealdstone Station. The Waxwell Lane, Pinner HA5 3EJ style of historic mansion blocks, to an informally planted garden. 4.4 hectare site will be developed A potential development project with five blocks of between four in phases, into a residential-led, as part of Harrow 'Build-to-Rent'. and ten storeys, designed by b. Canons Park estAte mixed use urban quarter. The project The site is positioned to the rear architects Maccreanor Lavington. Rose Garden Close, off involves the delivery of about 850 of the main shopping parade on The site is bounded by mature Canons Drive, Edgware HA8 7RF homes (including at least 200 Bridge Street and is a short walk trees which help to integrate the Private 18C seven-acre lake, part build-to-rent units to be retained from Pinner London Underground new development with the existing of the dismantled Canons Mansion by the council), a new school, Station. Harrow Council is engaged mixed scale buildings. Retention grounds, now surrounded by 1930s commercial and community space, in extended consultation with local of the trees has helped shape the character housing. Wildlife includes and high quality public realm. A stakeholders which is informing concept of an internal garden, Canada geese, swans and ducks. multiple award winning design team initial development capacity work, accessible to all the blocks. The (led by Stephen Taylor Architects) taking into consideration the site development includes 358 flats: 233 c. former grosvenor was appointed in January 2016 opportunities and constraints and private market, 53 private rented CinemA, now to create a site masterplan and establishing an appropriate number sector, 72 affordable homes and ZoroAstrian detail designs for ‘phase 1’. and mix of units; a feasibility study a new community workspace hub. Centre for europe 1 will help refine the development Basement level parking maximises 440–442 Alexandra Avenue, options for the site ahead of detailed the space for landscaping and Harrow HA2 9TL design and planning stages and public realm at ground level. Grade II* listed Art Deco building subject to further consultation. with well-preserved interior. Auditorium with deep coved ribs; 7. roxeth LibrAry proscenium arch flanked by fluted Station Road Roxeth Library, Northolt Road, columns. F E Bromige 1936. South Harrow HA2 8EQ The redevelopment of Roxeth Library D. Harrow school presents an exciting opportunity to Old Schools Church Hill, 2. byron QuArter create a transformative and inclusive Harrow-on-the-Hill HA1 3HP Harrow Leisure Centre, facility for the local community, Notable elements include the Christchurch Avenue, alongside new housing for the people Old Schools, Fourth Form Room, Harrow HA3 5BD of Harrow. It presents a chance to 13. hARROW sQuARE ↗ the best preserved 17C schoolroom The vision for Byron Quarter is to establish a distinctive sense of place College Road, Harrow HA1 1BA in the country, and the Old Speech create a true community, which on the high street with a generous College Road provides high quality Room Gallery, a purpose built room has modern leisure facilities, and high quality public setting that housing in the Heart of Harrow. intended for the teaching of public a beautiful park and sporting encourages social interaction and The first phase was granted speaking which figured prominently activities at its heart. The project boosts the perception of South planning approval in 2016 to deliver in the classical curriculum. will provide a mix of housing types Harrow Town Centre. 318 homes alongside a new library, Converted 1976 by Alan Irvine into and tenures, including council- retail space and new town square. modern gallery with mezzanine floor. owned build to rent, social and The second phase is currently in a affordable, and market sale. pre-application process and will e. headstone Manor New and improved public space provide 120 new homes, employment (hArrow museum) for community events, as well as space and a new entrance and Pinner View, Harrow HA2 6PX indoor and outdoor recreation improved accommodation for (in grounds of Headstone and sport, will help to create a Harrow Baptist Church. Manor recreation ground) vibrant neighbourhood and leisure Grade I listed moated Manor House. destination for Harrow residents. 14. ArtIsAn plAce Built early 14C and former residence Artisan Place, Harrow HA3 5DS of the Archbishops of Canterbury, 3. THE WEAlDSTONE PROJECT 8. HaslAm house ↗ A comprehensive mixed use it is the oldest surviving timber- Peel House, Palmerston Rd, Haslam House, 304 Honeypot development on 2.29 hectares framed building in Middlesex. GREENHILL Wealdstone HA3 7TS Lane, Stanmore HA7 1DY of the former ColArt factory and A new home for the Council is being Haslam House is the pilot project for office buildings at Wealdstone High f. kenton LibrAry planned for Wealdstone - it will Harrow’s Private Rented Sector (PRS) Road/Whitefriars Avenue. Kenton Lane, Kenton HA3 8UJ be more efficient to run whilst programme. Planning permission The development comprises 189 A good example of the Middlesex delivering necessary services, has been granted for 9 two-bedroom homes in linear blocks linked by County Architect’s Department’s housing, commercial and affordable houses which will form part of the homezone streets; as well as a style adopted after 1933, which work space and improved public Council’s Build to Rent portfolio. refurbished, locally listed office gave distinctive architectural form of realm. This project is designed The site has been cleared and work building for creative uses, 5 new calibre and panache to the London to further improve the economic is due to start in early 2017 with creative use studios and a new suburbs. Curtis & Burchett 1939. 4 performance and quality of life completion by the end of the year. public square; and safeguarded within Wealdstone. An award area for educational and sport g. PaxfolD house winning team, led by Gort Scott 9. Harrow Arts centre hall use at Salvatorian College to 47 Elizabeth Gardens, A3 Architects, was appointed in Harrow Arts Centre, the site’s north. The development Stanmore HA7 4UG September 2016 to develop 171 Uxbridge Road, provides a mix of much needed A low energy sheltered and detailed design proposals for the Hatch End HA5 4EA apartments and houses. affordable housing scheme for site. Engagement for the project Feasibility work by architect Andrzej older people owned and managed started in January 2017. Blonski shows that the site has kodak sIte by Harrow Churches Housing the potential of being sensitively The Kodak site is 57 acres in Association (HCHA). Includes solar 4. greenhIll Way developed around the listed area, which is about the same thermal and PV panels and rainwater Greenhill Way Car Park, Elliott Hall as a much-improved size as Harrow town centre. It is harvesting. TM Architects 2015. Greenhill Way, Harrow HA1 1LE cultural destination. Subject to split into two distinct parts: Of central importance to the Harrow funding, a number of options are town centre’s regeneration, this being considered including the 15. Harrow View East Greenhill Way scheme will re-energise the area, building of a new 600-seat theatre Kodak, Headstone Dr, create vibrancy and drive economic and the renewal of Elliott Hall to Harrow HA1 4TY growth. The site is designated include a smaller theatre with The site of the former Kodak ‘mixed use’ in the Harrow and an area for events and private Factory buildings. There is an Wealdstone Area Action Plan and functions. A cinema showing first approved masterplan for the whole leading architects Karakusevic run films, live performance events site to deliver 1800 new homes, Harrow Town Centre Carson have completed a and special family events could landscaped space, a care home, comprehensive feasibility study.