Kensal Canalside will deliver 500 affordable housing units alongside two parks and a new high street on a former gasworks site
Plans lodged by a partnership between Ballymore and Sainsbury’s for 2,519 new homes in Ladbroke Grove have been approved by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
The scheme, called Kensal Canalside, will include 500 affordable homes plus two parks and a local high street with new offices, shops, cafes and restaurants centred around a reinstated historic canal basin.
There will also be a 60,000 sq ft Sainsbury’s supermarket with an underground carpark.
The neighbourhood will be built on a 19-acre brownfield site, a large proportion of which as been closed off the public for over 40 years as a former gasworks.
Designed by architect FaulknerBrowns, the masterplan also includes grassland, woodland, wetland and canal basin habitats to support urban wildlife.
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The community is around a 15 minutes’ walk from four tube stations – Kensal Green, Kensal Rise, Ladbroke Grove and Westbourne Park.
Patrick Dunne, chief property and procurement officer at Sainsbury’s, said: “Since 2009 we’ve been working successfully with development partners like Ballymore to redevelop Sainsbury’s sites into new homes and community spaces, while transforming what we offer customers.”
A spokesperson for the Ballymore and Sainsbury’s partnership confirmed that it will maintain a long-term partnership with Notting Hill Carnival, which launches from the site, with plans to create a new “family friendly” carnival experience being explored.
Architecture firms Hutchinson & Partners and Maccreanor Lavington are also on board the project team, which includes consultants WSP, Hoare Lea and Gardiner & Theobald among others.
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