Agenda item

This report seeks approval to authorise the Strategic Director of Regeneration and Environment to appoint multi-disciplinary design teams and a developer partner for the named sites within the South Kilburn Regeneration Programme in order to speed up the design process and also the delivery process. This will help to  ensure that the programme timescales as envisaged and as communicated can be achieved.

RESOLVED that:

19.1    The Strategic Director of Regeneration and Environment in consultation with the Lead Member Regeneration, Growth, Employment and Skills be delegated authority to award the contract for a Multi-Disciplinary Design Team to progress with the design process to prepare a detailed planning application for the proposed comprehensive redevelopment of the 1-8 Neville, 1-64 Winterelys, 113-128 Carlton House and Carlton Hall Site;  

19.2    The Strategic Director of Regeneration and Environment in consultation with the Lead Member Regeneration, Growth, Employment and Skills be delegated authority to award the contract for an architecturally led Multi-Disciplinary Design Team to progress the design process to prepare a detailed planning application for the proposed comprehensive redevelopment of the Hereford House and Exeter Court Site; and

19.3    The Strategic Director of Regeneration and Environment in consultation with the Lead Member Regeneration, Growth, Employment and Skills to be delegated award a contract for a Developer Partner for the Redevelopment of the Chippenham Gardens Site.

Councillor Shama Tatler, Cabinet Member for Regeneration, Growth, Employment and Skills, introduced the report stating that the regeneration of South Kilburn is a fifteen year programme which is approximately half way through. It aims to transform the area into a sustainable and mixed neighbourhood and create a real sense of place and belonging. The programme will deliver around 2,400 new homes of which 1,200 will be made available for social rent for existing South Kilburn, secure council tenants. To date 1073 new homes have been delivered with 60% (639) new homes having been made available for existing secure tenants of South Kilburn. 

The Council’s objective is to provide high quality new homes with values driven from market sales in order to maintain the viability of the Regeneration Programme in the long-term, and to achieve a substantial improvement in the living conditions of existing South Kilburn secure Council tenants.

Councillor Tatler stated that the South Kilburn Masterplan review took place in 2016, and that the community is at the heart of the decision making process. She outlined that the Council had taken an inclusive and participatory approach to consultation and engaged with residents and stakeholders of South Kilburn with extensive local consultation from July through to December, which directly fed into the drafting of a revised South Kilburn Supplementary Planning Document 2017 (SPD). The SPD was adopted by Cabinet on the 19 June 2017 and will be an important document in determining how this area continues to transform over the next 10-15 years.

Councillor Tatler stated that the South Kilburn Regeneration Programme also includes the delivery of a new larger high quality urban park and an improved public realm, a new local primary school, new health facilities, new retail facilities, an Enterprise Hub and Community Space, improved environmental standards and a South Kilburn District Energy System.  The South Kilburn Programme has been recognised for exemplar design for new build homes as well as landscape projects and has won a number of prestigious awards.

Councillor Tatler thanked Marie Frederick, Senior Project Manager, and Jill Rennie, Senior Project Manager, for their work on this report.

This report seeks approval to authorise the Strategic Director of Regeneration and Environment to appoint multi-disciplinary design teams and a developer partner for the named sites within the South Kilburn Regeneration Programme in order to speed up the design process and also the delivery process. This will help to ensure that the programme timescales as envisaged and as communicated can be achieved.

RESOLVED that:

19.1    The Strategic Director of Regeneration and Environment in consultation with the Lead Member Regeneration, Growth, Employment and Skills be delegated authority to award the contract for a Multi-Disciplinary Design Team to progress with the design process to prepare a detailed planning application for the proposed comprehensive redevelopment of the 1-8 Neville, 1-64 Winterelys, 113-128 Carlton House and Carlton Hall Site; 

19.2    The Strategic Director of Regeneration and Environment in consultation with the Lead Member Regeneration, Growth, Employment and Skills be delegated authority to award the contract for an architecturally led Multi-Disciplinary Design Team to progress the design process to prepare a detailed planning application for the proposed comprehensive redevelopment of the Hereford House and Exeter Court Site; and

19.3    The Strategic Director of Regeneration and Environment in consultation with the Lead Member Regeneration, Growth, Employment and Skills to be delegated award a contract for a Developer Partner for the Redevelopment of the Chippenham Gardens Site.