Following the intervention of The Mayor of London, the Old Master Brewer´s hotel site in Hillingdon has taken a step closer to be being redeveloped into 514 new homes.

London’s Mayor overturned the council´s decision in February which rejected Inland Homes plans for the six-acre site near Hillingdon Circus.

Stephen Wicks, Inland Homes chief executive. said: "This is an important brownfield regeneration project which will help create over 500 new homes, ensuring a positive contribution to housing needs in the London borough of Hillingdon.

"The scheme will benefit the natural environment surrounding the site, creating an attractive landscape. Inland Homes have a strong record of securing planning permission and delivering complex brownfield sites and we look forward to achieving full planning permission." 

182 of the proposed homes will be affordable and the development would range from between two to eleven stories. It would offer employment and 1,250sqm of commercial floor space as well as car and cycle parking.

A landscaped public square would be created in the south-western corner of the site with extra footpaths through the green belt land to the east. 

Inland Homes have agreed to contribute £539,000 towards ecology and landscaping to green belt land east of the site and a further £1.365m contribution to improving the bus service to the future development.

The development is just 200 metres east of the Hillingdon tube station and the site lies between the A40 Western Avenue and Freezeland and is near TfL bus routes to Ickenham, Uxbridge, and Oxford.

Whether the project goes ahead rests with housing secretary Robert Jenrick.