Western Avenue, Ealing
Sep 24, 2008 by Andrew Dufton
This redevelopment of brownfield land by Chancerygate and Savills will refurbish a 5 storey 1930’s depository for use as modern office space, and replace a 1950’s warehouse with a new storage building. The old industrial site is situated between major transport links; the A40 Western Avenue, which is one of the main transport arteries into London, the Great Western Railway line and the London Underground.
L – P were contracted to undertake a desk based assessment of any buried archaeology on the site, to accompany the submission of a planning application.
A map regression exercise using a GIS database was undertaken in order to precisely correlate existing archaeological finds with past activity on the site, thereby identifying the likely presence of surviving archaeology. The first major development on the land was in the 1930s when manufacturing companies moved into Park Royal, prior to this it was used for agriculture, being between to Medieval manor houses.
L – P : Archaeology liaised with the Greater London Archaeological Advisory Service and the local authority, Ealing Borough Council. The findings of the DBA research and the particular nature of the development – new buildings would be within the footprint of those existing on site – determined that no further archaeological work would be required at Western Avenue.
| Client: | Chancerygate Group Ltd, Savills (Oxford) |
| Site: | Western Avenue, Park Royal, Ealing, London |
| Development type: | Commercial offices; Regeneration |