Demolition Plan for Gunnersbury Avenue Office Block
Application not associated with any proposal to develop the site
The current building on the site at 250 Gunnersbury Avenue
December 30, 2023
An application (PALL/2023/3967) has been submitted to demolish a long vacant office block near Chiswick Roundabout with no associated plan for a development on the site.
250 Gunnersbury Avenue, which is accessed from Power Road, has been vacant for several years and documents submitted with the proposal say that it is in a state of disrepair.
The application has been made on behalf of Hold Prop Co 1 Ltd one of the directors of which is Paul Kempe a property developer who owns City & Provincial Properties.
It is stated that the intention is to leave the site vacant once the building has been removed.
Last month local councillors were approached by a planning consultant about the possibility of construction a self-storage unit incorporating flexible office and light industrial space at this location. Shurgard is opening a large self-storage facility on the adjacent site.
An earlier plan to build 19 flats at the site made in December 2021 was refused by Hounslow Council and rejected on appeal in September 2023. An associated alternative proposal submitted at the same time to add extra storeys to the existing building was likewise refused.
Before that an application (P/2020/0856) had been made to build a mixed used space with workshops on the lower levels and co-living units in a building up to 13 storeys high. This proposal was refused planning permission in September 2021.
The address has been boarded up and vacant for several years
Back in 2017 a proposal to build an eight-storey office building was given the go ahead but the permission was allow to lapse as was a scheme for a seven storey building approved the previous year.
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