Borough buys K&C College site in £25m deal

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is to buy the 1.25 acre Kensington & Chelsea College site on Golborne’s Wornington Road in a £25m deal. The purchase forms part of the Council’s plans to regenerate the area and some of the site will be used for housing while the rest will continue as a college.

The Council will commission a professional team to explore design and planning options for new housing as well as replacement community and educational facilities. One of the options for consideration will include building new private and affordable homes in partnership with a private rented sector developer while retaining part of the site for wider community and educational use.

After the Council acquires the freehold, the College will have a guaranteed space on the Wornington Road site for as long as it wants. The current building will continue in use for at least the next two or three years, and then in any new development built in the future.

Councillor Rock Feilding-Mellen, Cabinet Member for Housing, Property and Regeneration, said: “We believe this site offers a number of opportunities for the Council. It means much-needed new housing can be built on land acquired by the Council. The site will also have a strong community and educational use component which will be consulted on and secured through the planning process.”

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