Plans have been submitted to Ealing Council for a 882 home development at a disused car park close to a west London Tube station.
Park View Place is a planned new neighbourhood south of Sudbury Hill Underground Station on the Piccadilly line.
If approved, 542 homes would be built, with 407 sold at market rate and 135 sold at affordable rates – short of the 35 per cent affordable homes expectation.
Alongside standard housing, the project includes 340 co-living flats. A co-living flat is similar to student accommodation in that tenants have their own bedroom and bathroom but share living spaces and kitchens.
The plans also include shops, offices, a café and a new community centre.
Landscaping plans include a new path to Grove Farm Park across Costons Brook. There would also be children’s play spaces.
The site previously received planning approval between 2020 and 2022 for a total of 558 homes across its northern and southern halves. However, a review of those older consents revealed several issues impacting deliverability, such as varying building heights, a mix of materials, differing internal layouts, and single staircase, which is too few under new regulations.
So far, all comments on the application are objections, with over 19 people registering their opposition to the development. A majority of people raise concerns about the scale of the development and the perceived increased pressure on local roads and services.
One resident commented: “This proposal is entirely inappropriate for the location and demonstrates a complete disregard for the existing pressures already affecting local residents. The area is already heavily congested on a daily basis, with traffic levels that are difficult to manage even before introducing an additional population of well over 1,000 new residents.
“The local road infrastructure is simply not capable of supporting development on this scale. Equally concerning is the completely inadequate parking provision being proposed.
“A development of this magnitude with minimal parking spaces will inevitably force hundreds of additional vehicles into surrounding residential streets, creating unsafe conditions, obstructing access for emergency services, and causing significant disruption to current residents who already struggle with parking availability.”
The consultation will run until Friday May 22.
