Privately funded by QED, a sustainable development company, Perryn House on Western Avenue is expected to deliver cost savings of £2m to Ealing Council, and it will provide safe, comfortable affordable housing for 44 homeless families in Ealing.
Ealing is one of a handful of leading London councils proactively embracing solutions to address the affordable housing crisis by utilising brownfield sites. Transport for London (TfL) brought forward this site via the GLA’s Small sites programme which promotes sites to smaller housebuilders and developers to deliver new affordable housing to tackle London’s housing crisis. QED were the developer selected for this site and their scheme creates 100% affordable housing
Around the country, roughly 96,000 households are in temporary accommodation while they wait for longer term solutions to become available. 2,295 of those households are in Ealing, and an average of around 100 further households approach Ealing Council each month in need of temporary accommodation. Ealing has experienced a steady decline in the availability of suitable options to offer homeless families, particularly within the borough.
The proposed accommodation provides 44 front doors comprising two- and three-bedroom family homes, all with south-facing balconies. Built to zero carbon standards, proposals to reinstate the western wing of Glendun Court are architecturally inspired by the mansion house typology and shall create a statement building along the Western Avenue.
Ross Gilbert, Managing Director for QED said: “Our proposed plans have been submitted to Ealing Council and we are eagerly awaiting the planning application decision so that we can push forward and help provide in-borough accommodation for homeless families in Ealing.
“We will be acquiring this land on Western Avenue from Transport for London through the Greater London Authority Small Sites scheme, which helps to make small https://labmonline.co.uk/news/temporary-accommodation-development-ealing/publicly owned sites available to small developers. This has allowed us to play our role in building the homes that London needs and creating cost savings for Ealing Council.”
Nigel Pickup, Head of Commercial Property at Transport for London, said: “It is great to see QED reach this significant milestone to provide new affordable housing to homeless families in Ealing. This site was identified for potential development as part of our small sites programme, which looks to make more small publicly owned sites available to small developers, housing associations, and communities.
“This site is one of several across London where we are working with developers to find new ways to use our land and help bring forward much-needed new homes to help address the capital’s housing crisis.”
QED submitted a planning application on 22nd July 2022. Once planning permission has been obtained, TfL will complete the disposal of the site to QED.
Hope Gardens, a 60-unit temporary accommodation solution in Acton, delivered as joint venture between QED and Ealing Council, opened in December 2017 to provide accommodation for nearly 290 Ealing residents finding themselves homeless in the lead up to Christmas. Find out more about that project here.
