A planning application was submitted yesterday for the Earls Court Opportunity Area, which encompasses the exhibition buildings, home of the annual ICE Totally Gaming exhibition.
The exhibition promoter, Clarion, has already announced a date for the 2013 show to be held at the ExCel venue in London’s Docklands (February 5-7, 2013).
The planning application is by EC Properties, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Capital and Counties Properties. The application includes outline plans for the 77-acre site and a detailed application for the Seagrave Road car park site which covers 7.5 acres.
The £8bn project will include over 7,000 new homes and will create 12,000 new jobs. The total area of the development will cover 11.4m square feet and will also include offices, leisure, hotel and retail space, plus a new primary school, a library, health centre and over 23 acres of open space.
The Seagrave Road car park development will see 800 new homes built from townhouses to apartments, built around a 90m long garden.
The Opportunity Area is taken up by the exhibition centres, some railway land owned by Transport for London and the West Kensington and Gibbs Green housing estates, which are owned by the Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. EC Properties has developed the master plan on behalf of all three landowners.
