Riverside Way Industrial Estate, Uxbridge
Slough Estates Plc
Office permission secured on appeal with attractive car parking provision and green travel plan requirement deferred to occupier.
As part of advising on the continued regeneration of the Riverside Way Estate at Uxbridge, Slough Estates Plc asked us to secure permission for a new office block at the Estate’s main entrance as well as redeveloping an area of existing, dated warehousing with more modern, flexible, industrial units.
The Council sought to resist office development but we renewed an earlier, dated permission and promoted that as the foundation for the new office scheme.
We resisted various benefits required by the Council in relation to the industrial accommodation, including the provision of small units. In addition, a satisfactory level of car parking and the approach to a green travel plan could not be agreed. Our research showed the inappropriateness of the Council’s position with regard to car parking, the lack of any demand for small industrial units in the area and the regenerative benefits of the office development. We also argued that the green travel plan arrangements were properly for tenants to address following their occupation of the building.
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