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GERON WAY, NW2
Borough Barnet Size 844 student rooms ground floor retail and café units Client Astir Living Major redevelopment for a Purpose Built Student Housing scheme on the former Flip Out site at Brent Cross. The site lies next to the new Brent Cross West Station at the intersection of the Brent Cross West (Staples Corner) Growth area and the rapidly developing Brent Cross Cricklewood regeneration area. The scheme includes 844 student rooms – with commercial and café units at the ground. The upper levels are designed in an S-shaped plan form that enables landscaped amenity podiums above the commercial units and rises to a 28-storey tower next to the station. The development is conceived as an ensemble of complimentary architectural elements and designed to be the first phase of the emerging Brent Cross West Growth Area. Communal student areas and external amenity are provided at multiple levels, with the whole of the top floor conceived as a sky lounge with 360-degree views and a wrap-around terrace set within a double-height open frame that in turn will act as a key way-finder to the adjacent station. The design benefitted from regular and positive dialogue with an engaged planning and design team at Barnet; an enlightened and hands-on client; a great set of consultants and a proactive and forward-thinking planning team at Iceni. This enabled a planning process of just under 14 months from initial pre-app September 2023 to planning submission June 2024 and positive decision at committee in November 2024. Project Team: Planning consultant: | @iceniprojects Townscape, EIA, FRA, Sustainability | @iceniprojects Transport Consultants | Transport Planning Practice Fire Consultants | BB7 Consulting PBSA Consultant | @_homesforstudents Daylight & Sunlight | @eb7limited Wind Mitigation Assessment | @giasurveyors Mep Consultants | FHP Landscape Architect | @studio_bosk Arboricultural | @fabrik_uk Noise & Vibration | Ian Sharland Limited Air Quality | @southdownsurveyors Structural & Geotechnical | @iesis_group Ecology | Derek Finnie Associates Ltd |
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