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The Brentford Project : a failure?

I made a visit to Stratford in East London today.In a new area there called the Village East there were an impressive number of high rise buildings ... with different attractive styles.Buildings well spaced out with green spaces all around and a multitude of children play zones ... with varying equipment and structures for them.to enjoy.By comparison Brentford has been shortchanged. Crammed walkways and overbearing buildings.Take a trip to Stratford and see.

Jim Lawes ● 471d8 Comments

As the site comes closer to completion, I'm more and more impressed by it.

Jeremy Parkinson ● 410d

A big improvement on the dereliction and water-logged hulks that bordered the river for so many years.

Peter Evans ● 411d

Agreed, big improvement on County Parade and its environs.

David Burke ● 411d

Boxes, wind vortice blighted corridors, lack of natural light to 3/4 of most blocks, inadequate parking limiting work/career options, sold as investments overseas.Very little open space and no personal open space.It's nice because it is new and unweathered and will be maintained until everything is sold off.Then it will look not unlike several similar developments by same developers.

Raymond Havelock ● 411d

Looks fantastic to me, is a few years from being completely finished but everything so far looks wonderful.

Andrew Boynton ● 413d

Have you seen the Brentford project today? Looking good!

Angelo R Santagata ● 416d

I have lived in Brentford nearly 45 years and in that time it has continuously been failed by Hounslow Council. This is what one comes to expect.

Hazel Dakers ● 437d

Maybe the brownfield site at Stratford enabled the planning authorities to insist on a less dense development whereas the Brentford Project is working off an existing footprint. A better comparison might be Butlers Wharf in Southwark where the feel of dockside Victorian alleyways is created with less of the smell and filth of the original. I'm reserving judgement on the Brentford Project but, thus far, I'm favourable.

Jeremy Parkinson ● 466d

The East Village, Stratford.https://nla.london/projects/east-village-1JL

Jim Linwood ● 470d