This objection to the main application, Ref. PP/25/03535, was presented to and passed by the meeting on 11th September 2025 and submitted on 19th September 2025.
Objection from the Queen’s Park Residents Association
The Queen’s Park Area Residents Association (QPARA) has been established for over 50 years and represents the residents, local park users and businesses in the Queens Park area of the London Borough of Brent.
We have submitted objections to the Project Flourish applications on January 12th, 2024, and May 15th, 2025. While this application is by a separate developer, we regard it as effectively part of the same overall development, with many of the same flaws.
The following objection was passed unanimously at our meeting on Thursday 11th September 2025.
Key Concerns
QPARA wishes to re-state our deep concern about the following issues:
Traffic impact
We are still particularly concerned about the development’s impact on the already poor traffic conditions on Ladbroke Grove, which will be exacerbated both during construction and once the development is completed.
The St William application states that there will be no car parking for residents apart from 24 disabled spaces. However, there will inevitably be vehicle use servicing the dwellings such as taxi and delivery services.
The St William application acknowledges that Project Flourish has not yet agreed a junction design but ignores that as a problem.
There is no visibility of the issues around the junction design being resolved. These were highlighted by both the Transport Planning Manager at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and by TfL.
Emergency Access
Whatever is said in any application, there can be no getting away from the fact that access to the site is confined to a short stretch of Ladbroke Grove. In case of emergency or just routine highway or utility works, this could make the site inaccessible.
Conclusion
We object strongly to the current proposals by St William for the Kensal Gasworks project.
While this part of the development does not have some of the major problems associated with Project Flourish, it is still part of an extremely high-density approach to the use of this site which we consider wrong.
The issues around traffic congestion and emergency access remain unresolved and should be sufficient grounds for rejecting the scheme according to the Council’s own policies.
The RBKC Local Plan (adopted July 2024) clearly states that any new scheme must deliver improvements in street safety, ease of movement and a positive contribution to the Healthy Street Score (Policy TR1). There is insufficient evidence that this scheme delivers on those requirements.