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UK: Architect Sheppard Robson has submitted plans for a 29-storey PBSA tower and a 14-storey Premier Inn hotel for a site in Wembley Park, north-west London.
The scheme, submitted to Brent Council earlier this month, would replace a 1990s Premier Inn hotel building and surrounding car park.
The new Premier Inn hotel would contain 212 rooms, while the neighbouring tower would house 605 student bedrooms. The rest of the site would be landscaped with new trees and improved pedestrian crossing points.
The scheme, for developer Whitbread, sits opposite Wembley Park station and is intended to fit within the wider Wembley Park Masterplan.
The two towers are separated by a two-storey pavilion, providing amenities for each building, while the site perimeter is left open for wide pavements and landscaped features.
Sheppard Robson partner Dan Burr said: “Wembley Park Drive brings together a number of the practice’s specialisms in one place – our hotel and PBSA expertise, sustainability team and model-makers all working to inform the design process in different ways and contributing to the dialogue with external stakeholders.”
“The resulting proposal has been developed to work at multiple scales: the urban scale via the skyline silhouette; the neighbourhood scale through the two complementary forms; and the human scale of the carefully designed street edges and extensive greening. The project knits the two uses on to a constrained site while exploiting the synergies between them. We hope our proposal will contribute to Wembley as both a place to live and a major leisure destination,” he added.
The design also considers overheating, including mechanical cooling systems alongside a passive design strategy for natural ventilation in order to meet the Greater London Authority’s energy and carbon standards.
Highlights:
- Architect Sheppard Robson has submitted plans for a 29-storey PBSA tower and a 14-storey Premier Inn hotel for a site in Wembley Park, north-west London
- The scheme, submitted to Brent Council earlier this month, would replace a 1990s Premier Inn hotel building and surrounding car park
- The new hotel would contain 212 rooms, while the neighbouring tower would house 605 student bedrooms. The rest of the site would be landscaped with new trees and improved pedestrian crossing points
- The scheme, for developer Whitbread, sits opposite Wembley Park station and is intended to fit within the wider Wembley Park Masterplan
