The Peabody Trust, the UK’s oldest housing association, is to develop a £40m hi-tech urban village on a former London gasworks site.
The trust has bought the 4ha (10-acre) Kensal Green gasworks site on the Grand Union Canal, NW10, which it plans to redevelop with 288 homes, 4,645m2 (50,000 sq ft) of light industrial space and 35live/work units.
Masterplanned by Piers Gough of CZWG architects, the scheme will have the UK’s largest application of solar panels.
The trust hopes this will generate enough electricity to power houses and commercial premises in the village.
The development will include green transport links. A restoration of the canal basin will link the village with waterbus services running to Little Venice and Camden Lock.
The scheme will be mixed-tenure as well as mixed use, with houses offered at affordable and market rents as well as sold for both sole and shared ownership.
Dickon Robinson, director of development and technical services at Peabody, said: “Kensal Green encapsulates all of our primary goals here at Peabody.”
Peabody is working in partnership with Enterprise plc, Inner City Enterprises, British Gas Property Division and Kensington Housing Trust.
