03 Oct £100 million Ealing co-living scheme approved

Innovative property company Tide Construction has won planning approval for a £100 million, 462-home co-living scheme in Ealing.

The development is on a site currently known as The Castle, a 1930s two-storey public house, which has been vacant since 2020. The building will be demolished and redeveloped into a part 32-storey, part 27-storey co-living development with private and shared living spaces and amenities. 

Located at the junction of Victoria Road and Wales Farm Road, the site is a two-minute walk from North Acton underground station within the Old Oak and Park Royal Opportunity Area.

Ealing Council and the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation approved the development, subject to section 106 requirements, which include a financial payment towards affordable housing of £13.1 million.

The HTA-designed scheme, based on a community architecture approach, includes rooms of 210 sq ft to 280 sq ft, with a valuation based on rents of between £275 and £305 per week. The scheme will have 16,145 sq ft of shared amenity space, including a replacement pub, residents’ lounge, laundry facilities, library, dining/cooking area, 434 cycle parking spaces, co-working space, terrace, gym, games room, cinema and sunroom.

The development will be built using MMC (modern methods of construction) techniques by Tide Construction’s Vision Modular Systems. Modular construction involves constructing different parts of a building at a specialist manufacturing plant and bringing the separate elements together to create a new building on a chosen site. 

A spokesman for Tide said: “Our scheme in Ealing will deliver new homes precision-manufactured in controlled conditions, enabling homes to be built safely and without causing significant disruption to the surrounding neighbourhood.”