A new neighbourhood for Brentford, on a site that has stood behind fences for decades.
Time to open 980 Great West Road back up to the town, the river and the park around it...
For years the former GSK headquarters sat closed off from the Great West Road, a large piece of Brentford that the town could not reach. We are bringing the fences down. In their place comes a neighbourhood of around 2,300 homes, stitched back into Brentford and open to everyone, with more than three in every five square feet of the site given to public space.
The site has four edges and we have made a place of each: the energy of the Underside beneath the M4, the calm of the River Brent, and a green, wildlife-rich boundary with Boston Manor Park.
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For a generation this stretch of the river Brent has been out of reach. Now it reopens to Brentford, and offers spaces to eat, to rest and to get active by the water
The homes, around 2,300 of them across a range of types including social rent, co-living and student accommodation, sit alongside more than 300,000 square feet of space for work, study, leisure and community. Ground floors are made for everyday life: food and drink, leisure and healthcare, with flexible room for pop-up markets, events and small local businesses to take root.
A destination designed to add energy to the dead space beneath the M4. The Underside brings markets and events curated for Brentford, offering somewhere active from the first days of construction and for the years to come.
We are building on what is already here.
Around 60% of the existing structure will be kept and repurposed, saving 34,500 tonnes of embodied carbon, and we are aiming to divert 95% of site materials from landfill, cataloguing and reusing them on and off site.
Regeneration that values what already stands, rather than starting from a clean slate.
A part of Brentford closed for a generation, now illuminated.
A new neighbourhood, to be brought to life by the people who will live, work and gather here
