Manor Road and Drayton Green Road, West Ealing: post-approval planning advice for 144 affordable homes

Following the successful appeal for 144 affordable homes at 51–56 Manor Road and 53–55 Drayton Green Road, West Ealing, we were involved in all post-approval planning advice as the scheme moved from consent into delivery. The appeal permission related to a major mixed-use redevelopment next to West Ealing station, comprising affordable housing above ground floor flexible commercial space, together with associated amenity space and infrastructure.

This was a detailed and condition-heavy permission. The appeal decision imposed a substantial package of requirements covering demolition and construction management, drainage, fire safety, noise, materials, cycle parking, landscaping, overheating, sustainability, whole life-cycle carbon, district heat network safeguarding, accessibility and operational matters.

Our role focused on the implementation stage: managing the planning strategy after consent, coordinating technical submissions and helping to navigate the approval route for a complex urban scheme on a constrained and highly visible site. For projects of this scale, the key issue is not securing permission alone, but carrying it through in a way that protects programme and keeps delivery moving.

That was particularly relevant here given the nature of the approved development. The Inspector had already concluded that the scheme would deliver much-needed affordable housing in a building of exemplary design, but the permission itself required careful follow-through across a wide range of planning and technical matters before implementation.

This project is a good example of the value of sustained planning input after permission has been secured. Our involvement covered all post-approval planning advice, supporting the transition from appeal decision to delivery on a major affordable housing scheme in West Ealing.

For projects of this scale, the key issue is not securing permission alone, but carrying it through in a way that protects programme and keeps delivery moving.