TfL Wants to Build New Staff Car Park by Princes Way
To replace parking spaces lost as a result of Bollo Lane development
Location of planned car park from the application documents
Transport for London (TfL) is proposing to develop a car park for staff on a derelict site on Princes Way in Acton.
The facility will replace car parking that will be lost as a result of the massive development it is proposing on Bollo Lane.
There will be no access to the 65-space car park from Bollo Lane, it will be entered via Gunnersbury Lane and be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
TfL says that the site is currently a hot-spot for fly-tipping and that it needs to provide parking for staff who work anti-social hours on their shifts including tube drivers on the Piccadilly and District line based at Acton Town station.
The site is withing the Gunnersbury Park Conservation are and backs on to a number of residential properties. It will be lit with lighting on poles up to 6 metres high.
It is anticipated that additional car parking areas may be located at Acton Works as future phases of the development are completed, including to reprovide staff operational car and lorry parking currently located on other parts of the Bollo Lane site.
In its application to Hounslow Council for planning permission for the car park TfL says, “In returning the site to this more purposeful and managed use, the project discourages further anti-social misuse of the site for fly tipping in addition to helping to support the safe functioning of the LU network – a sustainable form of transport depended on by thousands of Londoners every day.”
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September 6, 2022