14 Sep Go-ahead for new affordable flats in Edgware

Barnet Homes has won planning permission to demolish garages at Kenilworth Road in order to build 28 affordable homes at an estate in Edgware.

Barnet Homes, the council’s housing arm, has won permission to build 28 flats in two blocks at Broadfields Estate.

The scheme will involve the demolition of garages to the rear of existing three-storey flats fronting Kenilworth Road to make way for two blocks of housing three- and four-storeys high. 

Barnet Council received £2.8million from the Greater London Authority to help fund the development, and all of the homes will be made available for London Affordable Rent.

Barnet Homes scaled down its original plans to build 45 homes at the estate to ensure the blocks are a safe distance from a culverted stream running through the site.

Barnet councillors approved the revised scheme at a meeting of the strategic planning committee last week.

Simon Owen, from planning advisers HTA Design, told the committee an important ambition of the scheme was to “significantly enhance green space on the estate”, with “improved garden areas” and “two new play areas”.

He added that the planned flats had been “carefully positioned” to minimise the impact on neighbours’ privacy.

There will be 31 parking spaces provided and new pram stores built to replace the sheds to be demolished. Part of the new development will be on an existing area of green space next to the garages.