How to secure a future viable use for a listed building
Excellent example of Wallis Gilbert’s architectural style, preserved to secure site value.
Spotlight
Future proofing an historic site
Location
London
Ambition
After purchasing the site of the Klinger building based on advice from our Heritage team; Chancerygate’s ambition was to promote creative solutions and radical intervention to secure a future viable use for the building and a significant uplift in wider site value.
Realising an enhanced site value which our competitors were unable to help realise.
How we worked together
Klinger factory was built in 1936, designed by the celebrated architectural practice, Wallis Gilbert & Partners. The form of the building reflected the typical design approach of the practice, with impressive public facing elevations hiding utilitarian facilities behind. This sought to enhance the status of the industry and company for which they were designing.
Members of the Heritage team worked with the appointed client team to identify suitable redevelopment, demolition and adaptive works, and initiated heritage led pre-purchase discussions with both the London Borough of Bromley and Historic England. This informed feasibility options and ensured the successful promotion of radical planning and listed building proposals designed to clear the site and secure the future viable use for the frontage building.
Resolution
The approved scheme has unlocked the rear of the large site for redevelopment and secured the reuse of the frontage building, realising an enhanced site value for Chancerygate which our competitors were unable to help realise. It is hoped that this will enable the removal of the building from the Heritage at Risk Register.
The Klinger Factory (1936) building prior to redevelopment.
