Stanhope, Mitsui Fudosan and AIMCo have been given the go-ahead by Hammersmith and Fulham Council for three new buildings on the 17-acre Gateway site at White City Place, W12.
The plans involve 1.1m sq ft of office accommodation and will provide 8,000 new jobs across three buildings, the tallest of which will rise to 23 storeys.
Stanhope has partnered with co-working space Huckletree to deliver an affordable workspace and community engagement hub in one of the new buildings.
The facility will be a permanent location for an accelerator incubator, and an events and workshop programmes for start-ups and SMEs based in West London.
The new co-working space will provide a minimum of 180 desks, and up to 50 memberships will be free of charge for a period of six months to eligible start-ups.
The remaining desks will be offered to local businesses and residents at a discount of 25% of the market rent of Huckletree’s existing co-working space in the MediaWorks building.
The three Gateway buildings will be in addition to the six existing buildings at White City Place. MediaWorks and WestWorks, which have been refurbished, are being let. Garden House has been let to the Royal College of Art, while the Broadcast Centre, Energy Centre and Lighthouse buildings have been prelet to the BBC.
The White City area is currently undergoing a huge transformation, with Stanhope’s Television Centre, and Westfield’s phase two extension to the south, under construction.
To the east, St James’s 2,000-home White City Living is now under construction, and Imperial College London is planning a 2.7m sq ft educational campus, for which an EIA application was recently submitted.
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