Ealing Council's Cabinet has endorsed a placemaking framework aimed at creating a new civic heart for Perivale, centred around Perivale Station.
The decision, made at the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, signals a commitment to transforming the area into a more connected and vibrant town centre. Perivale is currently the only one of Ealing's seven towns lacking a clearly defined town centre, leading to dispersed services and amenities that necessitate travel for everyday needs.
The Perivale Placemaking Framework, approved by the Cabinet, outlines placemaking principles and intervention areas to guide future investment. This initiative aims to address community priorities identified through engagement, including the need for local jobs, leisure and community facilities, improved connectivity, and a stronger local identity. The framework proposes a new civic heart around Perivale Station that would bring together homes, jobs, community facilities, leisure opportunities, and public spaces.
Councillor Kamaljit Kaur Nagpal, Cabinet Member for Decent Living Incomes, presented the report, highlighting that the framework will focus on creating this new civic heart. This area will aim to bring together homes, jobs, community facilities, leisure opportunities, and public spaces to better serve both existing and future residents. The framework identifies specific intervention areas: Perivale Station and surrounding land for station enhancements, public realm upgrades, active travel infrastructure, and new local amenities; Ealing Central Sports Ground, exploring sensitively located development while retaining green character and community, culture, and sport functions; industrial land, evolving it into a productive contributor to the local centre supporting local jobs, skills, and innovation, with potential for new active frontages, improved public realm, enhanced worker amenities, and upgraded industrial stock; and Horsenden Lane South for public realm and active travel enhancements.
Future steps will involve further community engagement and technical studies to determine the specific mix of uses and interventions required for the new local centre. The framework also proposes enhancing connections to the West London Regional Park and improving the interface between the station, the new centre, existing community infrastructure, and neighbouring industrial areas. The framework is guided by the principle of A positive interface with neighbouring industrial uses,
aiming to evolve the industrial estate into a productive contributor to the local centre, supporting local jobs, skills and innovation.
This includes potential for new active frontages, improved public realm, enhanced worker amenities, and upgraded industrial stock. The framework also aims to Integrate existing community assets
and improve connectivity to the West London Regional Park.
The Perivale Placemaking Framework identifies the opportunity to connect the new civic centre into the West London Regional Park, bridging nature, recreation, culture, and community. Horsenden Lane South is intended to act as a key route through the West London Regional Park as a key section of the 13km Regional Park trail, implying a focus on improving connectivity and activation of this green space.
To foster a stronger local identity, the framework aims to create a new civic heart
around Perivale Station. This new centre is envisioned as a focal point for more connected communities; sports, culture and youth provision; everyday amenities; and employment.
The framework also states that new homes help create the critical mass of people needed to support this new centre, making the new uses viable and supporting existing uses while reducing the need for all residents to travel elsewhere for everyday needs.
The Perivale Placemaking Framework states that The mix of uses in this new local centre will be shaped through community engagement.
It also mentions that A further and more comprehensive programme of community and stakeholder engagement will be undertaken as the next phase of work to ensure that local people play a central role in shaping the future of Perivale's civic heart.
The engagement will focus on understanding what uses residents, businesses and community organisations would like to see within a new local centre.
While the framework emphasizes community shaping and engagement, specific mechanisms to ensure these priorities are genuinely reflected in final development plans beyond this engagement are not detailed.
The project is supported by £300,000 in revenue expenditure from existing Economy and Sustainability budgets, allocated for consultant fees and staff costs to progress the next stages of community engagement and technical analysis. The full public reports pack can be found here.