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GRID gets go-ahead for Art Deco-inspired Acton scheme
Approval comes despite impact of 15-storey social-housing project on historic underground station and conservation areas
GRID Architects has secured planning permission to redevelop an affordable-housing complex in west London, more than doubling the number of homes it provides in the process.
Ealing Council has granted the practice consent to knock down three low-rise blocks belonging to Women’s Pioneer Housing Association and replace them with a new block which will be 15 storeys at its highest.
The proposals, which will deliver 102 flats, are earmarked for the site of 1930s Brook House on Gunnersbury Lane in Acton, near Charles Holden’s grade II-listed Acton Town underground station. The building and two 1970s blocks currently provide a total of 39 homes.
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