The first of six phases to build 448 homes on the 13 acre site of the former Chelsea Barracks includes 123 designated as ‘affordable’ as well as five acres of gardens and open spaces, a public sports centre, shops and a children’s playground. Eight years after being sold by the MoD for almost £1 billion the £3 billion development on Chelsea Bridge Road, south of Sloane Square, designed by architects Squire and Partners, consists of three blocks of up to eight storeys containing 74 apartments ranging from 1 to 6 bedrooms. Klober Trapac® Tile and Snow Guards were used on the ‘super-prime’ 13-acre site as an easy-to-fit means of preventing tile fragments, snow or other débris from falling to the ground. Suitable for installation with flat or profiled concrete interlocking tiles, support brackets are linked using grid connectors and need no support batten.
The start of construction work triggered a £39 million initial payment from Qatari Diar’s subsidiary Project Blue to fund affordable housing elsewhere in Westminster. A second payment when phase two starts will take the total contribution to £78 million.