Golders Green Road
Location: 290–294 Golders Green Road, London NW11
Scale: Two to six storeys plus lower ground and basement, 111 apartments
Planning: London Borough of Barnet, 19/6857/FUL
Brief
The site, a former Harvester restaurant, sits at the north-western end of Golders Green Road near the A406 North Circular. It had an existing consent, and our task was to review it, add massing and homes, improve car parking and provide a mix of one, two and three-bedroom apartments.
The surroundings vary. Golders Green Road has buildings of mixed height with shops below flats, while Princes Park Avenue has mainly two-storey detached and semi-detached houses. Roman House, a four-storey office block, sits next door, and Phildor Court, a three-storey block of flats, is across the junction.
The ground slopes down towards the North Circular and Decoy Brook to the north, and rises towards Golders Green to the south-east. The design had to work carefully with these changes in level.
Response
We secured planning permission for 111 apartments, with car and cycle parking, refuse and recycling stores and landscaping. The scheme uses the same modules and supplier framework agreement as Spectrum House, which gave the client a secure cost base before planning.
We adapted the existing permission into a modular design with a better mix of homes. The building is split into a series of blocks, each responding to its part of the site, and the elevations are designed to be completed in the factory.
On Golders Green Road the building has a simple stepped form. It steps down towards the rear to sit comfortably with the lower residential streets, and detailing breaks up the larger volumes.
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Project Info
- Category: Residential
- Location: 290 - 294 Golders Green Road, London, NW11
