The up-and-coming studio has lodged plans with Westminster City Council – also the scheme’s backer – for permission to demolish two single-storey adult care buildings on the site in Maida Vale and replace them with three new blocks.
Bungalows at 291 Harrow Road and the neighbouring 1-2 Elmfield Way are currently used to house 13 people with varying needs.
Associated communal and support spaces would also go under the plans, as would a temporary multi-use games area for which planning consent has lapsed.
In their place, the practice would build three adjoining blocks to deliver new residential, commercial, cultural and sports space.
A communal lounge and co-working facility would be provided for privately-owned homes, while a 230m² all-weather sports space would be created.Advertisement
The scheme, which has been designed with landscape specialist Farrer Huxley would also include 272 cycle spaces and a roof garden for social care residents, families and staff.
Carter Gregson Gray said its scheme ‘gathers people together and celebrates community … At its heart lies a garden designed for rest, play and conversation: a place of connection.’
Floor plan 291 Harrow Road (fourth plan)
It said the central block in the V-shaped development would ‘provide generous light-filled homes for 24 residents with additional needs’.
The multi-purpose, all-weather play space would ‘provide residents and the wider community with a high-quality accessible sports and leisure venue which takes pride of place’, added the practice.
‘It is imagined as a beacon for the people of the area.’
Meanwhile, wide pavements, rain gardens, trees and social spaces would be used with the ambition of ‘establishing a new urban character’.Advertisement
The practice added: ‘As a backdrop to this, the architecture seeks to establish a quiet order to the site, driven by environmental ambitions and the experience of residents and passers-by.
The buildings are robust, precise and delicate, reflecting the predominant materiality of the area while introducing a new tradition in Westminster.’

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