Colindale regeneration moves forward

The regeneration of the Colindale area in North London has taken a step forward after the local council approved two major planning applications.

The London Borough of Barnet last night unanimously approved plans for hundreds of new homes, an aparthotel, a new public piazza and a transport interchange.

The scheme will also clear away old derelict buildings on the disused Colindale Hospital site.

The plans were contained in two planning applications by Fairview Homes Ltd.  The first covers the disused Colindale Hospital, in Colindale Avenue, where the developers propose to build 714 homes.

This includes the restoration and conversion of the listed former hospital administration building, a new Barnet NHS facility, a café/shop, and energy centre and a site management office.
 
This application also safeguards a plot of land within the development for Barnet College. Subject to planning consent for a new building, the College would be able to relocate from its Grahame Park campus to a new location next to Colindale tube station. Part of the Grahame Park Way site could then be released for a new school.
 
The second application was for permission to demolish Station House and build an aparthotel together with a restaurant and three commercial units on the ground floor.

This application also proposes the creation of a new public piazza and public transport interchange next to the tube station, including bus stops and a taxi rank. The existing tube station ticket hall will be retained and enhanced.
 
The former Colindale Hospital is one of a number of key development sites identified in the emerging Colindale Area Action Plan.

Barnet's cabinet member for planning and development, cllr Melvin Cohen, said: "This is a farseeing decision and is of huge importance to the residents of Colindale. The scheme will bring about radical improvements in the living conditions and life prospects of everyone who lives there, and opens the way to further, comprehensive regeneration.

"Colindale will become an attractive, vibrant and sustainable area, in line with our priority to create successful suburbs."

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