Our Regeneration team are attending UKREiiF 2024 - The UK’s Real Estate Investment and Infrastructure Forum in Leeds during May 2024.
The event is about connecting people, places and businesses to accelerate and unlock sustainable, inclusive and transformational investment. You can find out more on UKREiiF.com
VIew our Brochure for UKREiiF 2024
The rest of this page was produced to support a 2023 event by LREF (London Real Estate Forum) at the Barbican.
Phase one (a) Poets Corner site works have begun
Part of the Council’s main development site, Poets Corner, has now commenced on site.
The Milton Road scheme is shortlisted for the Housing Design Award and is the first phase of this exciting programme of works. It will see the delivery of 39 new homes, 100% affordable, on the old Milton Road carpark, delivering 10 new houses and 29 flats. Fuller plans for the Poets Corner Redevelopment are expected in 2024.
Find our more about the Milton Road scheme
Byron Park housing plans refreshed
We are submitting refreshed business plans for housing development at Byron Park to our Cabinet this autumn. We’ll then be launching public consultation on the new designs in early 2024. This will be in conjunction with the Council’s development partner Wates Residential.
Masterplan for Harrow Town centre
Harrow has a designated Metropolitan Town Centre, one of only 14 across London. To ensure that our local residents and businesses get a say in how the new town centre develops, the Council is planning a new Masterplan for Harrow Town Centre.
To help us do that, we will be carrying out an initial survey in October to find out what our residents love about Harrow Town Centre. We’ll also be asking what they feel could be improved. We’ll update this section with the link to the survey when it goes live. A formal consultation process will follow, the blueprint of which will support a revitalised post-pandemic town centre with an emphasis on creating a thriving night-time economy.
The outcome of the Town Centre Masterplan will be to produce a Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) that will feed into our new Local Plan due in 2024
Estates Review
As well as work beginning to look at our own estate following the adoption of the new Corporate Asset Strategy in July 2023, the Council is undertaking an informal call for sites in advance of the formal Local Plan consultation. For more information view our Asset Management Strategy.
Investors Tour – come see for yourselves!
If you’re interested in finding out how ‘Metroland’ is preparing for 2030 and beyond, get in touch with our team today. We’re planning an Investors Tour next spring, but ahead of this our Regen team would love to show you around the exciting new developments already taking place in the borough.
With a fast train only 11 minutes door to door from Harrow & Wealdstone station to London Euston station you will see why Harrow is becoming a chosen destination for so many investors/developers.
Your Regen team contacts at London Borough of Harrow:
Dipti Patel - Corporate Director for Place Dipti.Patel@harrow.gov.uk
Emma Talbot – Director of Regeneration and Sustainable Development Emma.Talbot@harrow.gov.uk
Kirstan Shiels, Director of Regeneration programme Kirstan.Shiels@harrow.gov.uk
Jodie McCarthy-Mills, Commercial Lead Jodie.Mccarthy-Mills@harrow.gov.uk
Meet our new director
Emma Talbot is our new Director of Regeneration and Sustainable Development responsible for leading the teams working across Planning, Regeneration, the Corporate Estate to deliver the Council’s ambitions for growth and investment.
Emma joins us from the London Borough of Lewisham where she was Director of Planning and delivered some fantastic work for the borough with projects such as Lewisham Gateway and the Bakerloo Line extension.
About London Borough of Harrow
Since May 2022, London Borough of Harrow has been a Conservative-controlled authority.
Putting residents first; a clean and safe borough; and supporting those in need is at heart of everything the Council does.
The London Borough of Harrow’s corporate plan for 2023/24 sets out how the Council will restore pride in Harrow. Three priorities now sit at the heart of everything the Council will do to deliver its services to Harrow residents and businesses:
- A council that puts residents first
- A borough that is clean and safe
- A place where those in need are supported.
The corporate plan includes 24 flagship actions (some of which have already been delivered). Each of these actions seek to deliver a well-run Council that provides good value for money.
Harrow’s offer to families, business, developers and investors:
- Location – Harrow & Wealdstone – direct 11 minute fast train to London’s Euston station 5 miles south of Watford
- Made up of Harrow on the Hill, Harrow Weald, Headstone, North Harrow, Pinner, Kenton, Rayners Lane, South Harrow, Wealdstone and West Harrow.
- Is in Travelcard Zone 5
- With direct Underground and rail links from Harrow-on-the-Hill to the West End (Oxford Circus), the City, Uxbridge, and through the Chiltern Hills to Aylesbury.
- direct trains from Harrow & Wealdstone to the West End, Croydon, Gatwick Airport, Watford, Hemel Hempstead and beyond towards Brighton and Birmingham.
- Home to world renowned Harrow School
- Harrow has 52 primary schools and 26 secondary schools. Ofsted rate 23 as outstanding and 31 as good.
- Has a population of around 261,200 in 2021 – 9.3% more in 10 years
- Innovative business - with a large proportion of micro businesses
Other facts about Harrow:
- 36% of Harrow residents are working from home, according to the 2021 Census (Covid).
- Working age qualifications Level 3 and above; Harrow 71.5%, London 71.4% (De 21 ONS)
- Six of our town centres have a vacancy rate below 5% (Kenton (part), Kingsbury (part), Rayners Lane, Belmont, Harrow Weald and Queensbury.
- Three of our town centres have a zero vacancy rate: Edgware (part), South Harrow and Sudbury Hill.
- Harrow Metropolitan Town Centre had 31 vacant units in July 2023 - 8.84%, well under the Greater London vacancy average of 10.8%
Some History of Harrow
The historic centre of Harrow was atop the 408 feet (124 m) Harrow Hill.
The modern town of Harrow grew out at the foot of the settlement, in what was historically called Greenhill.
With the arrival of the Metropolitan Railway in the 19th century, the centre of Harrow moved to Greenhill and the success of the town centre has led to it being regarded as the "capital city" of the Metroland suburbia in the early 20th century.
Today, the historic area is distinguished as Harrow-on-the-Hill and is a conservation area with listed buildings of Georgian architecture and home to Harrow School, one of the seven major boys' boarding schools in England as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868.
Harrow was the base of the large Kodak factory from 1890 to 2016. The central site is now part of a regeneration programme by London Borough of Harrow: Eastman Village is providing over 2,000 new homes, a gym, supermarket, school, café, restaurant and flexible office spaces.
The modern-day town meanwhile is an established commercial centre of outer north-west London and houses a campus of the University of Westminster.