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homes, but offers an array of different layouts to renters (40 in fact), as well as 1,000 m2


a 1,200 m2


of ground floor retail space, and area earmarked for a new GP


surgery. The newly launched development has “outperformed leasing expectations,” says uintain iving, with a significant proportion being rented pre-completion. The project is very accessible to the centre of London, being two stops from Baker Street on the Metropolitan Line, and the overall Wembley Park development has already been used by film directors for various location shoots, explains Julian Tollast, head of masterplanning and design at Quintain, adding e’ve made a film about sustainable travel but on TV at the moment you can spot Wembley Park in adverts and the new series of Black Mirror and Not Going Out.” Repton Gardens itself includes apartments at discount market rent (29%) part of an affordable housing provision across Wembley Park of a similar percentage.


Quintain has been involved with this project alongside Brent Council for over 20 years, since 2022 in fact, with the initial project being the refurbishment of what is now the OVO Arena Wembley (formerly Wembley Arena). The developer has owned the land since 2002, which


historically was a brownfield mix of former car parks and retail parks. The early stages of the development were for private sale, and flats were picked up by investors as buy to let properties, some of which remain managed by Quintain. However, when private euity firm one tar bought Quintain in 2015, the developer made a strategic move to focus on the BTR sector. Quintain is now around “three quarters through the consented masterplan for the 85-acre site at Wembley Park,” Tollast tells Housebuilder and Developer. Developments are still in the pipeline to the immediate north of the three new buildings at Repton Gardens, as well as an area to the north east of the project site. The Repton Gardens apartments are chiefly in two tall blocs  irch ouse with 209 and Cherry House with 161, and there is also a lower-rise called Aspen House with just 26 apartments. Many are intended for families and sharers, and have been designed to provide for this key demographic in the BTR sector. The mix is a variety of spacious three- and four-bedroom apartments, studios and one- and two-bedroom homes, all in a range of layouts. The cohort who have taken the properties, ranges from single twenty somethings to families with young


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