PM TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 LOCAL GOVERNMENT (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1976 ACQUISITION OF LAND ACT 1981 LONDON BOROUGH OF HOUNSLOW (LAND SOUTH OF BRENTFORD HIGH STREET) COMPULSORY PURCHASE ORDER 2017 PROOF OF EVIDENCE PAUL MONAGHAN APP/NPCU/CPO/F5540/77609 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1. We have been appointed by Ballymore as part of a wider design team to develop proposals for the regeneration of Brentford Waterside. The design practices involved in the masterplan were Allford Hall Monaghan Morris architects, Glen Howells Architects, Maccreanor Lavington Architects and Grant Associates Landscape Architects Qualifications and Experience 1.2. I, Paul Monaghan, am a founding director of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, an architecture practice I established in 1989 with Simon Allford, Jonathan Hall and Peter Morris. 1.3. I am a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and am registered as an architect with the Architects Registration Board. I studied architecture at the University of Sheffield and the Bartlett School of Architecture, University of London. 1.4. In addition to my project work, I am an active speaker, teacher and judge for competitions and awards, and a frequent media contributor and commentator. I am a visiting professor at the Bartlett and Sheffield schools of architecture, and have taught and examined at the universities of Liverpool, Nottingham, Kingston and Westminster, and been the Harry S. Shure Professor at the University of Virginia. 1.5. I have been Vice Chair of the CABE Schools Design Review Panel and am currently on the CABE National Design Review Panel. I am also a RIBA Client Design Advisor. I have been chair of the Young Architect of the Year Awards, chaired the RIBA Awards panel until 2010, and was a judge for Allford Hall Monaghan Morris studio, Morelands, Clerkenwell the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2016. 1.7 Allford Hall Monaghan Morris’ work includes Allford Hall Monaghan Morris acclaimed office developments such as the Angel 1.5 Allford Hall Monaghan Morris was founded in and Tea Buildings; housing developments including 1989 and is a RIBA Chartered Practice. It is now William Street Quarter and Adelaide Wharf; one of the largest architecture practices in the the Saatchi Gallery and several projects at the UK, with more than 350 staff based in offices in Barbican Centre; Kentish Town Health Centre and London, Bristol and Oklahoma City and a project North London Hospice; and many award-winning office in Liverpool. It operates internationally and schools around the UK. Current and recent projects is currently working on projects across the UK, in include the new Metropolitan Police headquarters the Netherlands and Germany, in the United States at New Scotland Yard; the Royal Court Theatre and in India. in Liverpool; Google’s offices in Kings Cross; the University of Amsterdam’s Roeterseiland campus; 1.6 Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has won 27 RIBA and White Collar Factory. National Awards and a further 16 Regional Awards, in addition to 19 Civic Trust Awards and many 1.8 The practice has led or is currently leading others for the design of housing, commercial, masterplan teams for Blossom Street in east residential, arts and education buildings and London; the redevelopment of BBC Television masterplans. The practice was awarded the RIBA Centre; Hawley Wharf in Camden; and Barking Stirling Prize in 2015 for Burntwood School in Central, the latter winning RIBA, BCI, Housing south London, having previously been shortlisted Design and London Planning Awards as well as the for the prize three times. European Prize for Public Urban Space 2 PROOF OF EVIDENCE BRENTFORD WATERSIDE | PM Burntwood School AHMM New Scotland Yard AHMM Kentish Town Health Centre AHMM Liverpool Royal Court Theatre AHMM University of Amsterdam’s Roeterseiland campus AHMM Barbican Arts Centre AHMM PROOF OF EVIDENCE BRENTFORD WATERSIDE | PM 3 Glenn Howells Architects they received the Residential Award at the New 1.9 Glenn Howells Architects (GHA) is a UK London Architecture Awards. architectural practice with offices in Birmingham and London. GHA has been a different kind of 1.16 Maccreanor Lavington’s housing project in practice from the start in that it has grown into a Cambridge, Accordia, received the RIBA Stirling studio with national and international reach from a Prize in 2008. Other accolades include the Housing base outside London. Design Awards Community Consultation Award for St. Andrews in 2011. Their work on the Olympic 1.10 GHA employs over 120 people across both studios Legacy Communities Masterplan received the and works throughout the UK in many sectors Masterplan prize and was named Overall Winner at including masterplanning, residential, office, the New London Architecture Awards 2012. education, culture, retail, health and leisure. 1.17 Their work has been cited as a case study in various 1.11 GHA’s projects have won a diverse range of awards publications on housing, schools and urban design, including those of the Royal Institute of British and are on four of the Greater London Authority Architects, the British Council for offices, National and Transport for London Architecture, Design and Homebuilder, Housing Design and RICS awards, Urbanism Panels, several housing association and Civic Trust and Civic Voice awards, and Concrete local authority frameworks. Their senior team are Society and Brick Award. GHA’s Savill Building was members of several London Design Review Panels, also shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize in 200. including Camden, Islington, Croydon, Newham, Harrow and the DSE (Design South East) review. 1.12 GHA’s work includes the nationally acclaimed Savill Richard Lavington was appointed as a Mayor’s Building, The Triangle and Gloucester Services. Design Advocate earlier this year. Current and recent projects include London City Island, the National Memorial Arboretum and the 1.18 Maccreanor Lavington was delighted to be placed Westonbirt Walkway. 54 in the top 100 architectural practices in the 2017 AJ100, the annual list compiled by the Architects’ 1.13 The practice has led or is currently leading Journal. masterplan teams for Paradise Birmingham; the development of Royal Wharf in London and Icknield Grant Associates Landscape Architects Port Loop and Hagley Road in Birmingham. 1.19 Grant Associates are a landscape architecture and urban design practice offering a global service Maccreanor Lavington Architects from bases in Bath UK and Singapore Asia. With 1.14 Maccreanor Lavington is an award-winning a growing international portfolio, the Company is architectural practice established in the early building a reputation for contemporary landscape nineties by Gerard Maccreanor and Richard design across a number of countries through a Lavington. Working from offices in London and variety of scales and types of urban and rural Rotterdam, Maccreanor Lavington has built up projects. a diverse portfolio of individual buildings and large-scale urban design projects, with particular 1.20 Founded in 1997, they are inspired by the creative expertise, in masterplanning, housing, mixed-use possibilities of sustainable landscapes and driven developments and regeneration. by the desire to connect people and nature. 1.15 Maccreanor Lavington’s work has been recognised 1.21 Under the leadership of our three principal by numerous prestigious awards. In 2017 they directors Andrew Grant, Keith French and Peter received an RIBA National Award for our Dujardin Chmiel our teams in the UK and Singapore include Mews scheme, designed in collaboration with top professionals in landscape architecture, Karakusevic Carson Architects and a housing architecture, urban design and product design. Design Award for Garden Halls in Bloomsbury Grant Associates are strong believers in creative designed in collaboration with TP Bennett. In 2016, collaboration, and enjoy close working relationships their Queen’s Park station scheme received the with an extensive network of international NLA Award for Unbuilt and Mixed Use. In 2014, consultants and local partners. Saxon Court and Roseberry Mansions received an RIBA National Award, a Civic Trust Special Award 1.22 Grant Associates have also won a number of for Brick, and a Camden Design Award, and in 2013 prestigious awards for their landscape proposals. 4 PROOF OF EVIDENCE BRENTFORD WATERSIDE | PM Accordia Maccreanor Lavington and Grant Associates Saxon Court and Roseberry Mansions Maccreanor Lavington Beekpoort Maccreanor Lavington London City island Glenn Howells Architects Accordia Grant Associates Printworks Glenn Howells Architects PROOF OF EVIDENCE BRENTFORD WATERSIDE | PM 5 2 INVOLVEMENT IN THE PROJECT Scope of Instruction within the Grand Union Canal and Boston Manor 2.1 Allford Hall Monaghan Morris were instructed by Conservation Area. As such, one of the key tasks Ballymore in November 2011, alongside Glenn of producing the Masterplan was an assessment Howells Architects, Maccreanor Lavington of the Site’s existing buildings and their landscape Architects and Grants Associates Landscape setting. Below, I describe the Site’s history, its Architects to prepare an architectural masterplan context and the Site as it is today (Section 3, 4 and (the “Masterplan”) and assemble a hybrid planning 5). application for the redevelopment of the Waterside site (including part of Brentford High Street). 2.6 I describe the concept of the Masterplan and the The application comprises an outline application way the proposals have evolved in Section 6. for the entire development