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Highbury Ford in Canonbury |
Homes plan for showroom site
ONE of Islington’s biggest car dealerships is being sold and more than 100 homes, shops, offices and restaurants will be built on the site.
Highbury Ford, in Canonbury Road, Canonbury, will leave the site in the next two months when the dealership moves to Stamford Hill.
The Ford Land-owned site, with room for up to 120 cars on its forecourt, has been let to its subsidiary, Dagenham Motors, since the 1970s. It has been sold to Notting Hill Housing for an undisclosed sum.
The housing association wants to develop the site as part of the regeneration of the run-down area around Highbury. No plans have yet been submitted to the Town Hall.
Some homes will be made available to key workers on a part-ownership basis.
Due to Canonbury’s strict conservation area rules, the development is likely to be low-rise.
A Notting Hill Housing spokesman said: “Our outline proposals are to develop the site in line with the council’s published ambitions for the Highbury Corner area – that is, predominately residential plus some employment use on the ground floor such as offices and restaurants.
“We will look to build about 100-plus dwellings of which a substantial number will be affordable and available to local people nominated by the council.”
No Ford staff will lose their jobs in the transfer to Stamford Hill.
A Ford spokesman said Stamford Hill was “closer to the majority of our existing customer base”.
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