Grand Union Village, Southall

This 20 hectare brownfield site, a former contractor's and aggregates storage depot with a frontage on the Grand Union Canal, is being transformed into a mixed-use ‘urban village’ of some 1000 houses and apartments, 10,000m² of office floorspace, a boating marina on the canal basin, new public places, community facilities and parkland. It is intended as a model of sustainable urban development.

We advised the development team on the traffic, transportation and contaminated land aspects of the project, devised earthworks, drainage and services strategies and designed the highway, footpath and cycleway networks.

The full potential of this prime regeneration site was unlocked by a notable package of sustainable transport measures which we successfully negotiated with the Boroughs of Ealing and Hillingdon, including a car share club and new bus routes, a package which was subsequently selected by ODPM as a best practice Case Study.