| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:"Brentford Developments in the pipeline" (Front Page) | Forum Home |
| Posted by: | Guy Lambert | |
| Date/Time: | 29/12/22 22:54:00 |
| You will have to wait a bit to see the latest version of proposals for Watermans, but I hope they will be seen in the next couple of months. Watermans Trustees have been unanimous in wanting to move to a site in the town centre (the Police station meets the bill, as would Ballymore) because there is precious little passing clientele on the current site. Hounslow have a retained financial stake on the riverside site, but only as landlord for Watermans. The Max Factor site was sold many years ago to an Insurance company on (from memory) a 999 years lease. This and the cop shop were bought several years ago by a developer. The agreed proposal - now with planning approval by the SoS - has commercial flat development on the prime site on the river with the arts centre and social/affordable homes on the cop shop site. Nobody particularly likes this, but until we have large changes in the way the property market works this proposal will get us (if it proceeds) a good art centre, a lot of dwellings available to those on the council list or currently in temporary accommodation, and a number of private dwellings on the river, including a much better riverside walk and much more visibility of the river through gaps in the new buildings, where any visual contact is blocked by the existing building. You may not have noticed there are two public car parks, one (Ballymore) about 100M away and Ferry Quays about 250M away. I don't remember how many Blue Badge spaces are provided but there are many street spaces near by which are accessible (free) to BB holders, |