Rialto/Frogmore get Paddington go-ahead

Rialto Homes and Frogmore Estates received detailed planning permission last week for their £150 million residential and commercial development in Paddington Basin, west London. The scheme will provide 472 apartments and 3,680m2 of offices, restaurants and shops fronting directly onto the Grand Union Canal and Praed Street.

The development will form the first phase of a major urban regeneration project set around Paddington Basin. The later plans include a series of public squares, a new piazza at the head of the basin itself, together with a range of waterside cafes, restaurants, shopping and enhanced public access along the canal to Little Venice.

l Rialto Homes also received outline planning permission last week for a mixed development on the River Thames in west London. The scheme, which is being undertaken in partnership with Fairview New Homes, comprises 350 units, shops, and a hotel and leisure facility at Ferry Lane, Old Brentford, opposite Kew Gardens. Demolition work has begun and construction should start in early August.

Rialto and partners LCR Developments and Frogmore Estates are also about to resubmit a planning application for some 600 units in a mixed use scheme at York Road, Wandsworth in London.