Police Station Set To Be Converted into Retirement Homes
Buyer of building looking to build 48 flats at the site
The art installation on the High Road. Picture: Mike Abbott
The company which purchased the Chiswick Police Station site has announced that it intends to convert it into retirement homes.
Birchgrove is a specialist developer of retirement properties for rent and already has three sites in operation in the South East with three others in development.
The site at 205-207 Chiswick High Road would become its seventh property. The freehold was put up for sale by the Metropolitan Police in September of last year as part of an asset disposal programme. No price has been disclosed for the 0.42 acre site for the building which extends to approximately 23,953 sq ft. Currently decorated with flowers and butterflies as part of a public art project it will be demolished with the new building expected to be four storeys high.
According to reports in the specialist property press, the planned development would include 48 apartments and amenity space for residents ‘and the wider community’.
There had earlier been suggestions that the frontage of the building on Chiswick High Road could be turned into a community centre. We have contacted Birchgrove to ask for more details of the plan
Honor Barratt, Birchgrove chief executive told Laing Buisson News, ‘Chiswick and Leatherhead together take the Birchgrove portfolio to seven neighbourhoods, each unique and glorious in their own way but all sharing the same commitment to helping people live a long and happy life.’
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July 14, 2022
