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Drayton Garden Village plans shape up
A NEW development which is looking to regenerate West Drayton is speeding ahead with plans for the first section of housing ready for consideration.
An outline application for the 775 home Drayton Garden Village project was submitted to Hillingdon Council last month, and now a full planning application has been submitted for the first section of housing.
The application, in the north-east corner of the former NATS site, on Porter's Way, West Drayton, is for 62 of the homes.
Stephen Wicks, chief executive of Inland Homes, said: "We hope that planning permission will be granted as soon as possible for this first phase.
"The former buildings on the area have now been demolished and once we have planning permission we will start construction immediately.
"The first properties on the first phase should be ready for occupation by the end of 2010."
This initial phase will be adjacent to Rutters Close, however, Inland Developments have promised that no construction traffic will be accessing the site via Rutters Close.
Once occupied, the new residents will use Rutters Close on a temporary basis until access can be gained through Porters Way.
Mr Wicks added: "We are encouraged by the interest shown in this development. Our second phase will be the area fronting Porters Way and it is intended that this will include the medical centre and care home for the elderly.
"It is unusual that amenities such as the medical centre and the care home come so early in a development. Usually they follow, once all of the housing is built and sold. We are conscious that there is a need for these facilities."
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"Regenerate West Drayton" - you ARE joking!
All it will do is fill up the area with even more immigrants and residents chucked out of their last social housing properties.
Nobody decent is going to PAY to live on a development full of life's dregs.
As for the doctor's surgery and old people's home - these are being built as some sort of "social bribe" to get away with the whole scheme.
This area cannot cope now, and all this is doing is making the fragile infrastructure even more stretched than it is already.
Many of the existing new flats in the development "Park West" (built by St George) are empty as nobody wants to pay top dollar to live next door to social housing.
£199,000+ for a 1 bedroom flat on a soon to be ghetto? I don't think so!
Ive said it before and Ill say it again vote BNP they will never get in but it makes the other parties wake up a bit.
What people don't know is that the medical centre on Drayton Garden Village is going to be at the expense of The Medical Center at 6 The Green,West Drayton.The doctors from The Green are in consultation with Hillingdon Primary Care Trust,The Developers and Hillingdon Council.There was no mention in the consulation with the residents of the fact that the inclusion of medical centre in Dayton Garden Village would result in the closure of the medical facility on The Green.Those who responded to the Inland Homes consulation merely requested a doctor's surgery.This was a minimum requirement asked for by the community and was raised following concerns resulting from the loss of a surgery on Harmoindsworth Road.