West Hendon

The masterplan for West Hendon is a significant estate regeneration project providing 2,000 new homes on slopes overlooking the Welsh Harp Reservoir. It aims to reconnect a once isolated site with the surrounding streets and spaces. The development provides mixed tenure housing, new public parks, a primary school, community centre and commercial space for small cafes or shops. Buildings range from mansion blocks to terraced streets to a tall signature building. Being built over six phases, diversity is at the heart of the scheme, from a 21- storey multi-unit building to individual terrace houses, and variations in contemporary yet contextually aware architecture.

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Aerial sketch

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The materials are predominantly brick, reconstituted stone, painted steel balconies and aluminium windows

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Context

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Now completed, the 21-storey building overlooking the reservoir

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First phases: residential courtyard lined with terraces and a mansion block

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Future phases

City: London NW9
Use: Housing
Client: Barratt Homes London and Metropolitan Housing Trust
Status: Current
Size: 11.29 ha
Units: 2,000
Collaborators: Phase 4 architect: Mikhail Riches
Phase 5-6 architect: Makower Architects
Structure: Halcrow
Services: Flatt Consulting
Landscape: Hyder Edgar Driver
Cost: Turner & Townsend
Contractor: Barratt London