Another Chiswick Garage Block Set To Be Turned into Flats
Six affordable and accessible units to be built
A visualisation of the proposed building on Beaconsfield Close. Picture: Levitt Bernstein
September 17, 2024
Another garage block in the Chiswick area looks poised to be turned into flats.
Social landlord Habinteg has submitted an application (P/2024/3062) to build six self-contained flats in a three-story block at the site on Beaconsfield Close backing onto Havard Road.
It has commissioned architects Levitt Bernstein to design a building which will be fully accessible and the flats will be offered to tenants at London Affordable Rent.
Habinteg was formed in the seventies by staff who had worked at the charity now named Scope. Its objective is to provide homes for disabled people that were integrated into mainstream housing schemes. Hence its name, which comes from the Latin phrase habitat integrans, or ‘integrated housing’.
The site was one of a number across the London Borough of Hounslow highlighted as potential development sites, to provide new affordable and accessible housing. This initiative runs in parallel with the Greater London Authority’s ‘Small Sites, Small Builders’ programme. This has seen several blocks across the Chiswick area and others over the wider borough area converted or in the process of being converted to housing.
The proposed site for the new housing is just north of Havard Lane and an electricity sub-station and a self-storage facility which is between the site and the A4 Great West Road.
The garages to be demolished on Beaconsfield Close viewed from Havard Lane
The application states that the existing communal amenity space to the rear of the block will be improved and shared with the existing residents of the estate.
Habinteg held a consultation on the proposals this June over a two-week period sending a postcard to neighbouring properties with details of the scheme.
There are currently seventeen garages on the site which would all be demolished. Nine parking spaces within the site and one unmarked parking space on the boundary would be lost in addition.
Any comments on the plans can be submitted by visiting the planning section of the Hounslow Council web site and searching using the reference P/2024/3062.
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