London Development Sites
Property development opportunities in London
12th & 13th February 2025 | Online
The February 2025 Auction House London’s property auction includes the following development opportunities.
A derelict mid-terrace workshop measuring 549 sq ft (GIA), located behind Argyle Square, King’s Cross, WC1H 8AP. Guide price is £150,000–£200,000.
Land and a garage to the rear of Westbury Avenue, Wood Green, N22 6RT, with planning permission for a two-bedroom dwelling. Guide price is £180,000+.
Malden Road NW5 4YB
This former doctor’s surgery spans 2,321 ft² over three storeys plus a basement in Kentish Town, Camden, with planning pending for reconstruction into four residential apartments (1x 1-bed, 3x 2-bed) totaling 3,022 ft². The property is 0.5 miles from Kentish Town underground station and 0.6 miles from Kentish Town West overground station. Kingsbury is inviting offers in excess of £1.1m for the freehold, subject to planning approval.
14 August 2024
Data by Knight Frank shows that following an improvement in the Spring of 2024, offers made on new homes in London fell by 50% in June and July 2024. Recent data indicates an improvement over the last few weeks.
According to Knight Frank, the best-selling schemes in London include One Park Drive (completed in 2022) and 10 Park Drive (completed in 2020) in Canary Wharf, where only 56 out of 830 private units are available. [Read more…] about Knight Frank data shows a 50% fall in offers on London new homes in the run-up to the General Election 2024
23 April 2024
Developer Cauldwell‘s 300,000 sq ft, 8-storey luxury residential scheme, with facades onto South Audley Street, Hill Street and Waverton Street in Mayfair, W1, is due to be completed in Q4 of 2025. Construction of the £2bn GDV project, occupying half a city block, commenced in 2017. Designed by architects Robert A M Stern, the building comprises 24 residences, including lateral apartments, penthouses and townhouses, and offers services typically associated with 5* hotels such as a health spa and swimming pool. Image of Waverton Street facade by Cauldwell
3 May 2024
Long leasehold 0.4 acre (0.16 hectares) Belle Isle Site at York Way, Kings Cross N1. The business/office-led development opportunity is adjacent to the Kings Cross Regeneration Area, with potential for up to 15 stories subject to planning. Offers via informal tender. Avison Young
A hostel spanning 3-4 stories, extending to 15,757 sq ft (1,464 sq m) GIA on a 0.31-acre (0.13 hectare) site at Harrow Road, Westbourne Green W2 5XQ. Resolution to grant planning permission to redevelop the site was granted but later withdrawn. Offers in excess of £5.75m. Savills
An office building arranged over 3 stories, measuring 5,125 sq ft, at Old Kent Road SE1. There was a positive pre-application with Southwark Council for a 6-storey mixed-use building. Acorn are seeking offers in the region of £2.5m.
Knight Frank are offering a 5,358 sq ft (497.8 m2) GIA mid-terrace hotel in Barkston Gardens, Earls Court SW5, with planning consent for a change of use to 5 apartments. The guide price is £3.75m.
21 November 2023 | Online
The Savills November 2023 property auction includes the following lots:
A detached former warehouse at The Square, Woodford Green IG8 0UQ, with planning for 3 residential units totalling GIA of 2,206 sq ft (205 sq m). Guide £585,000.
Land at Whitefields Road Enfield EN8 0HD, comprising two former garage sites of 0.28 acres and 0.13 acres by order of Enfield Council. Guides £210,000 and £115,000.
Four-bedroom 3-storey mid-terrace house at Grafton Road, Kentish Town NW5 3DX, totalling 1,450sq ft in need of modernisation. Guide £900,000.
Grade II listed town centre office building at London End, Beaconsfield HP9 2HN, with parking and a GIA of 350 sq m (3,765 sq ft). Potential for alternative uses subject to planning. Guide £1.25m.
A 5-floor Grade II listed office building at Mount Pleasant, Kings Cross WC1X 0AE, with a GIA of 3,737 sq ft. Development potential subject to planning. Guide £1.15m.
A 4 bedroom house at Sylvan Road, Wanstead E11 1QN, with planning consent for a new 4-storey building comprising 9 flats. Guide £1.5m.
A 5 bedroom mid terrace house at St Pauls Road, Islington N1 2LL, in need of modernisation, with planning consent to convert to 2 flats. Guide £1m.
23 October 2023
Tite Street, Chelsea, London SW3. A 0.74 acre freehold former care home site with an existing building extending to 38,080 sq ft (GIA). Potential for new build scheme subject to planning. Offers in excess of £50m. Knight Frank
Ferdinand Place, Chalk Farm, London NW1. Planning consent for a 4-storey building comprising 9 apartments and office space with a NSA of 785 sq m (8,447 sq ft). Price £3.35m. GLPG
17 October 2023
Fire Brigades Union, Coombe Road, Kingston upon Thames. Unconsented, permitted development opportunity, 9,483 sq ft GIA, 0.22 acre site. Guide price £3m. Savills
Rear of Park Road, Bromley BR1 3HL. The site comprises 9 garages with planning consent for two three-bedroom houses. Guide price £500,000. Acorn
Bermondsey Tramyard, Ilderton Road, London SE15. A 0.15-acre site with a resolution to grant planning permission for a 15-storey building comprising 59 apartments. The surrounding area is being regenerated as part of Southwark’s Old Kent Road Area Action Plan, additionally, the Surrey Canal Road Overground station is due to open in around 18 months. Price £4,950,000. Kalmars
Spanish Place, Marylebone W1 W1U. Grade II listed mid-terrace property arranged as two apartments and a medical practice measuring 3,085 sq ft NSA (3,587 sq ft GIA). Planning consent to redevelop to form two residential dwellings. Guide price £3.5m. Knight Frank
25 September 2023
Brent Cross Town is one of the largest regeneration projects in Europe, with the 180-acre site expected to deliver 6,700 new homes, having a GDV of £8bn. The project is a joint venture between Related Argent and Barnet Council. The main structures of the first two residential buildings, Plot 12 and The Delamarre are now complete. A new station, Brent Cross West, will open at the end of the year and connect to Kings Cross with a journey time of 12 minutes. Seven parks will serve the area, the first of which, Claremont Park, opened in 2022.
10 May 2023 | Online
Savills May 2023 property auction is online and includes: a 2 storey unmodernised house at Tramway Avenue, Edmonton N9 8PE, with a guide of £210,000; a detached freehold unmodernised 2 storey house at Craignish Avenue, Norbury SW16 4RW by order of Croydon Council, with a guide of £310,000; a part vacant house at Hendon Way NW2 2NB with potential to extend, with a guide of £600,000; a 4 bedroom unmodernised house with planning consent for an extension, at Arlington Road, Camden NW1 7ES. with a guide of £1.35m; a cleared site at Station Approach, Ruislip HA4 6RZ with planning for a commercial unit and 6 flats, with a guide price of £1.3m; land at High Road Buckhurst Hill IG9 5HN with expired planning for a 5 bedroom house, with a guide of £575,000.
16 March 2023
A CBRE report ‘The effects of regeneration on local property values’, analysed 11 regeneration zones in London and concluded that locations within a 10 minute walk benefitted from an average additional 2% increase per annum in residential property prices. The locations analysed were Canary Wharf, Colindale/Burn Oak, Elephant and Castle, Greenwich Peninsula, Kings Cross St Pancras, Nine Elms, Paddington, South Bank, Stratford, Wembley and Woodberry Down. Paddington benefitted the most with a 5.8% increase per annum. The research attributes this to many factors including improved transport links, enhancements to the area’s heritage, retail and green space.
26 October 2020
Camden Council has given planning consent for a new pedestrian bridge linking Pancras Square and Coal Drop Yard. The 25m bridge, designed by Moxon Architects and structural engineers Arup for KCCLP, takes inspiration from the lost railway bridges over the canal.
3 NOVEMBER 2020
The Savills online November 2020 auction features a commercial building in Greenwich SE10 with views of the Thames and planning recommended for 5 flats and commercial space (guide £1.45m), an unmodernised mews house in Marlebone W1 (guide £995,000), a four storey end of terrace building in Tuffnell Park N7 (guide £1.7m), a site in East Ham E6 with a pre-application for 26 flats (guide £1.5m), land in Edmonton N9 with planning for 9 assisted living flats (guide £575,000), basement space in Muswell Hill with planning for a 3 bedroom flat, (guide £350,000) and garages at Palmers Green with planning for a two bedroom house (guide £160,000).
24 September 2020
Galliard Homes are marketing a development located above the new Tottenham Court Road Crossrail entrance at Dean Street W1. The apartments are located in London’s Soho, just off Oxford Street and feature private external spaces in the form of winter gardens, balconies and terraces.
11 March 2020
Buck Street Market in Camden, designed by architects Eric Reynolds, is made from 88 recycled shipping containers and will house 80 retail outlets over 26,000 sq ft. The food and retail brands will all be committed to sustainable practices and processes.
9 April 2019
Despite a softening of the retail market in London, Bond Street together with Marylebone High Street and Spitalfields remain robust. Zone A rents at Bond Street are currently £2,500 per sq ft. The number of international stores debuting in London, including smaller emerging retailers, increased substantially in 2018. Savills
Haverstock Hill London NW3
A 0.51 acre site situated between Primrose Hill and Belsize Park, adjacent to Chalk Farm Underground Station. The site has planning permission for a seven floor building of 95,666 sq ft GIA, comprising of 77 residential apartments and 3 retail units. Knight Frank | UNAVAILABLE
Savills May 2018 Auction includes a 100m2 Site in Kings Cross WC1X
The Sheraton Grand Hotel, Piccadilly, London, W1J 7BX
9 May 2018
Sites include land at 38 & 38a Granville Square, Kings Cross WC1X 9PD. Guide £800,000+. Savills
14-19 Tottenham Mews London W1T 4AA
A development opportunity in Fitzrovia, close to Charlotte Street W1, comprising an existing disused D1 building. The existing 1970s building is arranged over ground and first floors extending to 7,606 sq ft (707 sq m) and has not been used for the last 10 years presenting a development opportunity subject to planning. Offers by 2nd March 2018. Knight Frank | SOLD
Royal College Street Camden NW1
On the Junction of Royal College Street and Baynes Street and overlooking Regents Canal, this site has planning for a mixed-use dwelling designed by architect Henning Stummel. The development will comprise 1,990 sq ft (185 sq ft) of residential and 947 sq ft (88 sq m) of commercial space. Offers in excess of £1.35 for the Freehold. The Modern House | UNAVAILABLE
1, 3 and 5 Rainsford Street London W2 1PY
Three mews buildings located between Paddington and Marylebone with planning for three houses totalling 3,310 sq ft on a site of 0.03 acres. Offers in excess of £2.2m. Savills | UNAVAILABLE
314-320 Grays Inn Road, Kings Cross WC1
Prime seven storey building in Kings Cross comprising of 31,140 sq ft GIA, including the basement. Potential for refurbishment, extension or comprehensive redevelopment. Unconditional offers for the Freehold. Gerald Eve | UNAVAILABLE
Avenue Road London NW8
A substantial corner plot with double frontage on one of the most desirable streets in St John’s Wood. Site extends to approximately 0.75 acres (0.30 ha) located a short walk from St John’s Wood High Street, Primrose Hill and Regent’s Park. The property comprises a single detached residential dwelling of approximately 7,298 sq ft GIA arranged over basement, ground and first floors. Knight Frank | UNAVAILABLE
187 Kentish Town Road NW1 8PD
Freehold site for sale with vacant possession and full planning consent for 12 residential flats (2 x 1 bed, 10 x 2 bed) covering 9,442 sq ft (877.2 sq m) NSA together with 3,017 sq ft (280.3 sq m) GIA of commercial cinema space (D2 use). Close to the amenities along Kentish Town Road and nearby Chalk Farm Road with Camden Town and Chalk Farm Underground stations nearby. Total site area is around 0.124 acres (0.050 ha). Knight Frank. | UNAVAILABLE
McHugh December Auction includes Sites in North Finchley and Islington
The Montcalm Hotel, 34-40 Great Cumberland Place, London W1H 7TW
Thursday 1st December 2016
Sites include: 3 lock up garages at North Finchley N12 9UD. Guide £30,000+; site with planning for 4 self contained flats, Bowes Park, N22 8JN. Guide £750,000+; Freehold Workshop at Offord Rd, Islington N1 1DJ. Guide £150,000+; Freehold Garage/Store with planning for new build house at rear of 202 Seven Sisters Rd, Finsbury Park, N4 3NX. Guide £230,000+; Land at west of 10B Belmont St, Chalk Farm NW1 8HH with planning for 2 new build houses Guide £1.3m. Mc Hugh & Co
The property comprises a single storey vehicle repairs/workshop building and secure yard. Planning permission was granted on 7th December 2015 for demolition of the existing garage/workshop and the erection of a four storey plus basement building to provide commercial (B1) space at ground floor and basement, and residential use (five x 2-bed flats and one x 1-bed flat) to the three upper floors. Offers in excess of £2.8m Gilmartin Ley | UNAVAILABLE
Auction House London’s Wood Green Site
The Grand Ballroom, Landmark Hotel, London NW1 6JQ
7 November 2016
Sites include land with planning at the rear of 32 White Hart Lane, Wood Green, N22 5RJ. Guide £65,000+. Auction House London
The Old Dairy, Wakefield St Bloomsbury WC1N 1PG
Prime Mixed Use Development Opportunity in the heart of Bloomsbury. 0.19 hectare (0.47 acre) site, currently occupied by a vacant warehouse and yard. Planning permission for the redevelopment of existing buildings and construction of 10 residential units, comprising 2 houses and 8 apartments, and approximately 1,104 sq m (11,883 sq ft) GIA office (B1) space. 350 metres from Russell Square and 600 metres from King’s Cross St Pancras, London Underground, national and international Rail Stations. For sale freehold with vacant possession. Offers in excess of £10.75m. Savills | UNAVAILABLE
Land in Belmont Rd, Chalk Farm at the October McHugh & Co Auction
Montcalm Hotel, 40 Great Cumberland Place, London W1H 7TW
Wednesday 5 October 2016
Sites include 105 Chanctonbury Way, WOODSIDE PARK N12 7AA. Guide £800,000+; 196/198 West Green Road, SEVEN SISTERS N15 5AG. Guide £1.2m+; 46 Eversley Park Road, WINCHMORE HILL N21 1JS. Guide £850,000+; 108 Wilberforce Road, FINSBURY PARK N4 2SU. Guide £1.5m+; 1/30 Windsor Ct, Golders Green Road, GOLDERS GREEN NW11 9PP. Guide £750,000+; 16 Rundell Crescent, HENDON NW2 3BP. Planning for 2 semi-detached houses. Guide £1m+; land at west of 10B Belmont St, CHALK FARM NW1 8HH. Guide £1.3m+; planning for 2 bed garden flat at 418 Essex Road, ISLINGTON N1 3PJ. Guide £375,000+. McHugh & Co
1 Fisher St & 8-10 Southampton Row WC1
One Fisher Street and 8-10 Southampton Row are broadly rectangular in shape and comprise two connected parcels. The parcel located to the west is occupied by 8-10 Southampton Row, a Grade II listed building extending to approximately 304 sq m (0.075 acres). The parcel to the east is the development known as Fisher Street extending to approximately 445 sq m (0.11 acres). The site is in its entirety extends to 749 sq m (0.185 acres). Planning permission for 22 apartments on the Fisher Street site and potential for a further 11 apartments at the Southampton Row site. BNP Paribus Real Estate | UNAVAILABLE
39 Fitzjohns Avenue & 46 Marsfield Gardens Hampstead NW3 5JT
39 Fitzjohn’s Avenue is a detached residential dwelling with a total Gross Internal Area of 2,057 sq m (22,143 sq ft). Previously in C2 use now with a Certificate of Lawful Existing Use from LB Camden confirming the use of the property as a single dwelling house. 46 Maresfield Gardens is a detached residential dwelling subject to a life tenancy. Formal pre-applications entered into with LB Camden for a pair of detached houses or 6 apartments. The site extends to a total of 0.7 hectares (1.72 acres) and is for sale part freehold / part leasehold subject to the life tenancy on 46 Maresfield Gardens. The vendor may consider conditional offers and offers for all or part of the property. Savills | UNAVAILABLE
