Planning applications in Brent, December 2006

Land at site of Wembley Conference Centre, Stadium Way, Wembley

The erection of an 8-storey building arranged around a central courtyard with basement comprising of 232 residential units (16 x studio flats, 80 x one-bedroom flats, 116 x two-bedroom flats, 20 x three-bedroom flats). Of these residential units, 16 x studio, 24 x one-bedroom and 48 x two-bedroom flats are for private accommodation; 36 x one-bedroom and 41 x two-bedroom flats are for intermediate accommodation; and 20 x one-bedroom, 27 x two-bedroom and 20 x three-bedroom flats are for social rented accommodation. In addition, the building is proposed to contain 618m² of local-needs floorspace, 2800m² of designer-outlet retail floorspace, 1469m² of D1 community floorspace in the form of a Primary Care Health Centre (PCHC), residential basement parking for 116 cars with access from Lakeside Way, PCHC parking for 24 cars with access from Stadium Way, 232 cycle-parking spaces, and landscaping works, on the corner of Lakeside Way and Empire Way (site of the former Wembley Conference Centre) forming part of the Quintain Stage 1 permission (ref: 03/3200). (The application is submitted as reserved matters detail pursuant to condition 2 (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (siting, design, appearance, means of access, landscaping, and samples), and details pursuant to conditions 6 (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (scheme parameters), 26 (configuration and extent of provision of communal and/or private residential open space), 30 (trees to be removed), 60 (disabled access), 61 (design of the underground car park), 63 (sunlight/daylight studies) and 64 (wind tunnel testing) for Plot W04 only (as shown on Parameter Plan 4 and bounded by Lakeside Way, Empire Way and Stadium Way) of outline planning permission reference 03/3200 dated 29 September 2004 for: Works for the re-orientation of Wembley Arena; Class A1 (Retail) comprising up to 14,200m² designer retail outlet, 11,800m² sports retailing; Class A1/A2 shops/financial and professional services up to 8,000m² (including up to 2,000m² supermarket); Class A1 (Retail) comprising up to 400 square metres of hotel boutique retail; Class A3 (Food and Drink), up to 12,700m²; Class B1 (a) (b) and (c) Business, up to 63,000m²; Class C1 (Hotel), up to 25,400m²; Class C1/Sui Generis (Hotel apartments), up to 26,700m²; Class C2 (Residential institutions) up to 5,000m²; Class C3 (dwellings) up to 277,000m², (up to 3,727 dwellings); Student accommodation (Sui Generis), up to 16,600m²; Class D1 (Non-residential institutions), up to 8,200m²; Class D2 (Assembly and Leisure), up to 28,500m² (including the existing Arena of 13,700m²); together with associated open space, public market area (Class A1), hard and soft landscaping, highway and engineering works, electricity sub-station, other utility requirements, other parking and servicing, and improvements to Olympic Way; AND; Reserved matters relating to siting, design, external appearance and means of access for the 3-storey structure to provide car and coach parking)