The Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation is a mayoral development corporation established in April 2015 by the

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Organisation

The ''Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation'' was established by the Mayor of London. Approval was granted by the

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in January 2015. The corporation is responsible for regenerating 650 hectares including the common land area of

Old Oak Common Old Oak Common is an area of Hammersmith, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, West London. Together with neighbouring Park Royal, the area is intended to become the UK's largest regeneration scheme, the scale of which has led to ...

and the industrial Park Royal site in

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. Plans are in place for the construction of 24,000 homes in Old Oak, consisting of a mixture of house types and tenures, along with opportunities for a minimum of 1,500 new homes to be built in non-industrial areas in Park Royal. In addition to this, the creation of 65,000 new jobs will stem from the development of the Old Oak Common station and the attraction of new businesses to Park Royal, joined by those who relocate from Old Oak. The aforementioned, along with the addition of a new HS2 and Crossrail station makes Old Oak and Park Royal one of the largest regeneration projects in Europe. Old Oak Common is a large area of common land situated in the London boroughs of

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, Brent and Ealing. The corporation assumes various statutory powers related to planning, infrastructure, regeneration and land acquisitions.

Board members

*Liz Peace CBE – Chairman *William Hill – Property investment specialist *Natalie Campbell – Director of Insight and Innovation at The Royal Foundation *Rahul Gokhale – Commercial Director at Allpex *William Mckee – CEO, Accessible Retail *Jules Pipe CBE – Deputy Mayor, Planning, Regeneration and Skills *Shevaughn Rieck – Partner at Farrells LLP *Michael Simms – Director of the Acton Community Forum *Helen Ward – Professor of Public Health at Imperial College London *Victoria Quinlan – Managing Director, Investment Management at Lendlease *Rahul Gokhale – Commercial Director at Allpex *Cllr Muhammed Butt – Leader of Brent Council *Cllr Julian Bell – Leader of Ealing Council *Cllr Stephen Cowan – Leader of Hammersmith & Fulham Council

References

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