Felnex Trading Estate Regeneration Scheme Aims To Turn The Area İnto The UK's First Sustainable Suburb

Felnex Trading Estate is a 7.7 hectare industrial estate located in the centre of Hackbridge. The transformation of the 1 million square foot Felnex Trading Estate in Hackbridge in Sutton, south London, is one of the largest redevelopment schemes in the country and will create more than 500 jobs.

The application is now to be referred to the Mayor of London before planning permission is formally granted. The council believes the development will be a magnet for families and couples wanting to relocate from inner city London to the leafy suburbs. Hackbridge railway station is just 25 minutes from London Victoria, while Sutton is one of London’s greenest boroughs with 1,500 acres of green spaces, including 89 parks.

The £150 million development, believed to be the biggest regeneration scheme to be approved this year in London, is a key part of Sutton Council’s ambitious Hackbridge Project, which aims to turn the area into the UK’s first sustainable suburb.

Schroder Property Investment Management, on behalf of Hackbridge Property Unit Trust, was granted outline planning permission for the “innovative and green neighbourhood” plan at a meeting of the council’s development control committee.

It aims to transform the 7.7 hectare site into a thriving town centre with 725 new homes, a community centre, doctor’s surgery, care home, supermarket, offices, shops and a bus interchange. They will be centred around a public square, designed to be the new heart of the community, where events such as farmers’ markets can be held and public art displayed. Also included are open spaces, pocket parks and ‘edible gardens’, where residents will be able to help themselves to produce from communal fruit trees.