White City
We advice on all aspects of Daylight & Sunlight at White City for a residential led masterplan for this prominent 10.4 acre site in West London.
The site is opposite the former BBC Television Centre and adjacent to Westfield Shopping Centre. Formerly occupied by a Marks & Spencer warehouse, the 4.2 hectare (10 acre) brownfield site will be transformed into a residential neighbourhood set in a new 4 acre public park called White City Green.
The mixed-use development for St James provides 1,845 multi-tenured homes over an active ground floor of commercial, business and leisure space, integrated within a parkland setting.
Bounded by rail lines on three sides, the masterplan forges new connections both over and under the rail infrastructure, looking beyond redline boundaries to stitch together the adjoining media, academic, retail and leisure uses into a cohesive neighbourhood.
Daylight & Sunlight White City
St James commission Patel Taylor to draw up plans for the scheme. Set within 10 acres of land of which about 70 per cent is open space. Three building types — 'pavilion,' 'mansion,' and 'skyline' — will house a mix of one- and two-bedroom homes. The 'skyline' and 'pavilion' buildings will have their own distinctive characters. The 'mansion' buildings are envisaged as high-quality townscape structures. A range of building heights, some rising to 30-storey pinnacles, direct users to the park.
The project also introduces new connections to the site. These include a link over the Central Line underground, providing access to the Television Centre to the west. There's also another link to Westfield shopping centre just south.
Explore more of our projects and news on Daylight & sunlight, including a project at Wembly Link, as well as an insight into how a misleading daylight and sunlight report led to development plans coming to a halt.
Services
We advised on all aspects of rights of light, daylight & sunlight and overshadowing to support the planning application for White City.
Also see our recent project at Pottery Lane.
Client : St James
Architect : Patel Taylor
Services : Rights of Light, Daylight & Sunlight
Sector : Mixed Use
Daylight & Sunlight Services
Detailed Daylight & Sunlight Assessments
Masterplanning & Site Optimisation
Maximum Development Envelopes & Optimisation
Façade Analysis & Optimisation
Internal Daylight & Sunlight Assessment
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
Transient Overshadowing
Hours in Sun for Amenity Space
Climate Based Assessment
Tree Impact Assessments
Radiance Studies
Light Pollution
Expert Witness
Technical adviser to Local Planning Authorities
Contact - Daylight & Sunlight White City
For details of our specialist Daylight & Sunlight surveyors near you see our London, Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol, Norwich & Plymouth office details.
Also see our recent article on the successful appeal against refusal of planning by Berkeley Homes. For more details of our daylight & sunlight advice on the White City masterplan please contact :
For advice on Daylight & Sunlight direct from one of our surveyors, please call our Enquiry Line on 020 4534 3138.
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Rebecca Chapman
BSc (Hons) LLB
Senior Director
Rights to Light
London
Matthew Grant
BA (Hons) MScLL
Senior Director
Rights to Light
London
Stephen Mealings
BSc (Hons) MRICS
Senior Director
Rights to Light + PW
Birmingham