Edgware Town Centre 

The Edgware Town Centre redevelopment is a large regeneration project in the London Borough of Barnet. Currently progressing through the planning process, the proposal outlines a radical transformation of the urban heart of this vibrant north London town.

Included in the London Plan, Edgware Town is an investment growth location boasting ‘excellent travel connections and great capacity for new homes.’

The key project partners are Ballymore (the owner of the Broadwalk Shopping Centre in Edgware), and Places for London – a property company related to Transport for London.

The Edgware Town Centre scheme revitalises the existing infrastructure and creates modern housing and amenities for the town’s commercial, retail and travel hub incorporating the Boardwalk Shopping Centre and the Edgware Bus Station.

The housing includes over 3.300 new homes across 25 buildings set in various surrounding plots of land. The local Deans Brook Nature Park will be reinvigorated and linked to a new 1.9-hectare nature park. New pedestrian and cycle routes will be constructed to improve links with the neighbouring districts of Mill Hill and Burnt Oak.

The Edgware Town masterplan is created by Howells, an award-winning UK architectural studio. Subject to planning consent, the scheme will take approximately 10 years to complete.

Edgware destination from 1924 to present redevelopment

Edgware became part of London’s Metroland with the extension of the underground railway from Golders Green to Edgware in 1924. At the time, many Londoners moved from central London to Edgware for a chance to ‘live a better life with fresher air, only 33 minutes from Charing Cross.’

The current town centre has a typical early 20^th-century London suburban streetscape with commerce taking place along the prominent but declining High Street.

The high street concept flourished in the 1950s providing local jobs and furnishing the retail with maximum space to display products and encourage buyers. As in many other London suburban towns, the Edgware population has soared since the 1950s and has now a very different economic and cultural structure. The majority doesn’t see the high street ‘as the obvious and natural centre of communities, as spaces towards which people gravitate.’  Instead, the 21st-century residents are departing from tired high streets featuring traffic jams, chain stores and dated shopping malls.  The population of Edgware prefers modern, clean, vibrant, and widely accessible neighbourhoods with leisure space filled with innovative restaurants and cafes, lively markets, vibrant arts and crafts centres, theatres, music venues and cinemas.

To bring footfall, jobs and life back to the Edgware Town Centre, the developer and the architect are implementing ideas and principles of a greener, cleaner, and accessible urban environment which is close to nature and provides residents with modern and inspiring retail, leisure and travel opportunities.

To reduce congestion and pollution in the city centre, a new modern bus transport interchange will be unveiled.

The residential housing includes new homes for students, families, and those later in life. There is an array of tenures including market sale, rental, shared ownership, and affordable rent.

The Edgware Town scheme will be built in four phases. Phase one will deliver 1,000 homes, public spaces, retail, community and leisure facilities including a new nature park, a revamped bus station, a new supermarket, a community library, office space and a cinema.

At present (2024), the project is worth £1.7bn and could take over 10 years to complete.  

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