Planning applications in Brent, June 2006

Building & Grounds, Oriental City, Edgware Road, London, NW9

Application accompanied by a full Environmental Impact Assessment for the demolition of existing buildings and redevelopment for mixed-use purposes, comprising Class A1 retail (with a replacement Oriental City [to include a Sui Generis amusement arcade and A3/A5 Uses], new B & Q and bulky goods store, which together should provide 500 jobs), 520 residential units (comprising 1-, 2- and 3-bedroom flats, 4% being affordable) located in eight blocks rising to 3, 6, 9 and 18 storeys above a fifth-floor-level landscaped podium along the Edgware Road, rising to 8, 4, 5 and 2 storeys above the fifth-floor landscaped podium facing Plaza Walk and rising to 3 and 6 storeys above the Grove Park street level; also, a nursery and primary school for 480 children, a health & fitness studio (Use Class D2), associated landscaping, servicing, 1,098 car-parking spaces - comprising 721 spaces for retail users (incl. school drop-off and disabled), 5 staff spaces accessed from Grove Park for the school, and 351 (incl. disabled) spaces for residents and a further 21 disabled spaces on the podium and works to highway, as accompanied by:- RPS Retail Statement (dated June 2006 with reference JLG0213) RPS Planning Statement (dated June 2006 with reference JLG0213) RPS Pre-application consultation review document (dated June 2006 with reference JLG0213) WSP Environment Impact Statement Volumes 1 and 2 (dated May 2006) WSP Environmental Statement, non-technical summary (dated May 2006) WSP Transport Assessment and appendices (dated 31 May 2006) WSP Transport Assessment Addendum (dated 2 October 2006) WSP PPG25 Flood Risk Assessment (dated October 2006) Sheppard Robson Planning Design Statement (dated June 2006) Sheppard Robson School Report (dated May 2006) Faber Maunsell Outline Service Strategy (dated November 2005) Faber Maunsell Renewable Engery Feasbility Study (dated 27th September 2006) Faber Maunsell Sustainability Statement (dated May 2006) Faber Maunsell Response to GLA Service design statement (dated 7th July 2006 with reference M006) Savills Toolkit Report (dated December 2005) Savills Toolkit Report Update (dated May 2006) Savills Toolkit Update (dated 5 October 2006) (as revised or clarified by e-mails dated 05/09/2006, 07/09/2006, 03/10/2006, 18/10/2006, 19/10/2006, 06/11/2006 & 06/11/2006 and letters dated 31/08/2006, 28/09/2006 & 30/10/2006)