CONSULTATION

Thank you to those who have provided their feedback so far.

The proposals are very similar to the scheme consulted on in 2021 in terms of the number of homes and building arrangement.

However, we have updated the design to deliver an improved housing mix, more closely aligned to local requirements and current market demand. We have also undertaken some changes to the masterplan to comply with the latest building regulations, design guidance and planning requirements.

You can read more here and view the latest CGIs below.

To provide your feedback, please click here.

Autumn Gallery 2024

Below is a gallery of the proposals. You can click on an image to enlarge and view it in more detail. All views are indicative at this stage.

CGI: Aerial View

CGI: Aerial View

CGI: Community Park

CGI: View from Anglican Chapel

CGI: View from Rear of Anglican Chapel

EVENTS WINTER 2024

Following two phases of earlier public consultation, we are now holding our third round of public consultation.

We look forward to presenting the latest plans and hearing your views. We will be at the following locations in the coming weeks, with further events to be announced.

  • Pop-up event Wednesday 27th November 9am – 11am at St Marks Church, Bathurst Gardens, Kensal Rise NW10 5HX
  • Pop-up event Wednesday 27th November 2pm – 3.45pm, Kensal Rise Library, Bathurst Gardens, London NW10 5EU
  • Pop-up event Tuesday 3rd December 10am – 12pm outside Kensal Green Station, Overground Ltd, College Rd, London HA10 5JT
  • Pop-up event Tuesday 3rd December 1pm – 3pm at Kensal Library, 20 Golborne Rd, London W10 5PF
  • Pop-up event Thursday 5th December 10am – 12pm outside Co-Op, Kensal Green Harrow Road, NW10 5NY
  • Pop-up event Thursday 12th December 2pm – 4pm Dalgarno Trust, Dalgarno Way, W10 5LE
  • Pop-up event Wednesday 18th December 3.30pm – 4.30pm Canalside Activity Centre, The Boathouse, Canal Cl, London W10 5AY

We will be adding more dates soon. To be kept up to date, please join the mailing list here.

LANDSCAPE LED DESIGN

As with all our St William sites, our approach to the Kensal Gasworks site starts with the landscape. We find that adopting a landscape-first approach is the most successful way to open up and reconnect places that have been closed to the public for decades.

St William’s aspiration is for Kensal Green Gasworks to become an extension of its surrounding green infrastructure, including Kensal Green Cemetery and the Grand Union Canal.

The development seeks to maximise the amount of high-quality open space alongside new homes, with a new publicly accessible open space at its heart, open to the community at all times.

The need for a high-quality green space was a key part of the feedback received so far.

The landscaping will be carefully developed to ensure that it is ecologically-rich and improves biodiversity on the site.

WORKING WITH NEIGHBOURING LANDOWNERS

St William is working closely with neighbouring landowners and in particular, Ballymore and Sainsbury’s, who own the land adjacent to Kensal Gasworks and are also bringing forward their site for redevelopment.

An overall masterplan will be designed to ensure a comprehensive approach and that community benefits can be maximised.

You can view Ballymore and Sainsbury’s consultation website here.

NEW HOMES

The development will contribute to the borough’s housing needs and will deliver around 790 new high-quality homes, including 35% affordable housing. The revised proposals include 148 Social Rent Homes with 68 being 3 or 4 bedroom homes. This equates to 79% of the affordable housing as Social Rent and 21% as London Living Rent by habitable room.

NEW CONNECTIONS AND PUBLIC REALM

Kensal Gasworks will provide new routes through and within the site, west to Old Oak Common and east towards Ladbroke Grove.

We know that traffic congestion is a concern locally and the development will prioritise routes for pedestrians and cyclists.

SUSTAINABILITY

St William is a responsible developer and strongly committed to creating sustainable places to live, work and enjoy. We seek to maximise the benefits our activities will bring to create a positive impact for surrounding communities.

Our approach to meeting sustainability standards on site will be exemplary. St William is part of the Berkeley Group, and is among the first businesses globally to adopt Science-Based Targets to align with the international effort to limit global warming to 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels.

Our approach will also include making use of prefabricated elements and minimising construction waste. Berkeley Group has already cut emissions from our direct operations by 77% since 2019 and have completed 48 site specific embodied carbon studies to tackle high impact materials.

We will work hard to ensure that our proposals positively impact the biodiversity of the site and its surroundings, maximising the development’s biodiversity net gain and urban greening factor.

As part of the planning process we will also produce a Sustainability Statement that will focus on our approach in more detail.