Harrow shutters Kodak PD plans
Dandi Living has been refused plans to turn a former Kodak office in Harrow into 61 self-contained flats.
Harrow Council has rejected the plans for 33,212 sq ft of development at Harrow View East.
In a decision letter, the council gave a number of reasons for refusal. Harrow said the previous 1976 consent for the office restricted its use for industry with no other purpose unless allowed by the local planning authority, and so the PDR order does not apply here.
Dandi Living has been refused plans to turn a former Kodak office in Harrow into 61 self-contained flats.
Harrow Council has rejected the plans for 33,212 sq ft of development at Harrow View East.
In a decision letter, the council gave a number of reasons for refusal. Harrow said the previous 1976 consent for the office restricted its use for industry with no other purpose unless allowed by the local planning authority, and so the PDR order does not apply here.
Harrow added that there was insufficient detail in the internal daylight assessment and said the scheme had also failed to comply with national space standards and would provide an unacceptable standard of residential accommodation.
Dandi had proposed predominately one-bedroom flats, with an average size of 50 sq m, in an application lodged in July.
The application was made shortly before new regulations were introduced that would block developments of this size. From the start of August all new permitted development has been limited to buildings under 16,145 sq ft.
The number of homes proposed via permitted development rights soared to a record 6,859 in July, ahead of the ban. This was more than three times the monthly average for the rest of the year and included substantial schemes from Diageo, Balcraft Properties and Lowe, among others.
Dandi has ambitious plans to develop a £5bn luxury co-living portfolio of 15,000 homes in London. The developer is led by Ali Reza Ravanshad and has teamed up with British Airways Pension Trustees, Dragon’s Den investor Touker Suleyman and the founders of US operator Ollie to pursue expansion.
The platform has a number of co-living schemes in Harrow, also via PDR. The first scheme from the new partnership is a 368-bed conversion at York House in Wembley. Dandi has a pipeline of 2,000 homes in London. Last year, the developer was refused planning consent for 159 co-living flats in Wandsworth.
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