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Rectory Farm

A modern, state-of-the-art underground storage and warehouse space suitable for a variety of purposes, from warehousing to archive storage.
Size
1.2 km
Location
London Borough of Hounslow
Status
Planning Approval
Contractor
Designers
Technical Architects: Chetwoods
Client
Formal Investments
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Rectory Farm is a derelict and inaccessible wasteland site, lying above one of the country’s largest remaining deposits of high-quality gravel, a material in demand for London’s growing infrastructure and building needs. The space created by the extraction of the gravel presented an opportunity for underground storage and warehouse units, together with creating the largest new park in London for more than 100 years on disused open space above.

In contrast to open cast mining, the gravel extraction process will take place discreetly beneath the park’s surface through an innovative ‘top-down’ construction method, used in the construction of high-rise buildings with deep basements.

The development will provide several thousand direct jobs, along with new recreation, cultural and sports facilities, community gardens, open parkland, wildflower meadows, and wooded areas to encourage ecological recovery and biodiversity.

We were appointed as technical architects for the project.

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Project Highlights
  • A 1.2 km long subterranean logistics facility
  • State-of-the-art underground storage and warehouse space
  • The largest new park in London for more than 100 years
  • Innovative ‘top-down’ construction method
  • Extraction of three million tons of high-quality gravel
  • Up to 2,500 jobs created during the project

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