Pollard Thomas Edwards has secured planning permission to replace two low-rise brutalist residential blocks and a health centre in north-west London with a scheme that will deliver almost twice as many new homes.

Its plans form the third – and final – phase of the Abbey Road Estate regeneration programme for Camden Council. They will result in 139 new homes, along with new ground-floor commercial space, in three blocks of up to 11 storeys in height.

The first phase of the regeneration programme, a stone’s throw from Neave Brown’s grade II*-lised Alexandra Road Estate, delivered 141 new homes on the former site of a multistorey car park. The second phase, which has delivered a new heath centre and community building near the estate’s two 20-storey tower blocks, completed in July.

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