Render of The Precinct on Park Road showing the proposed homes, café frontage and landscaped public space
Park Road & Park Lane · Teddington TW11

The Precinct.
A community proposal for the former Teddington Police Station.

Affordable homes for young professionals, an independent cinema, a co-working café and a new GP clinic — all on one Teddington brownfield site. Before we go further, we want to hear from you.

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21
new homes
5
GP Consultation Rooms
2
screen boutique cinema and bar
1
co-work café

The vision

More than housing — a piece of Teddington's social fabric.

"The Precinct" is a pro-bono Social Initiative Project by local architects Architecture:WK. Following the success of the Teddington Cinema proposal in 2021, it imagines the maximum civic use of this brownfield site.

Externally: warm brick and rusted steel, balconies and roof terraces, biophilic planting throughout. Internally: an interstitial pedestrian street creating a genuine sense of place, with the outdoor cinema doubling as a stage for spoken-word events.

The vision is to add the residential element to the Community Land Trust model — perhaps a new Community Interest Company or Community Benefit Society — offering discounted homes to young professionals in the area. Teddington has seen a 14% decline in residents aged 20–44 over the last decade. Other units, perhaps the courtyard units, would be aimed at local downsizers in the over-65s demographic.

The site

A bird's-eye view of The Precinct.

How the homes, cinema, café and clinic sit together on the former Police Station site — with a new pedestrian street, retaining the existing lawn to the north of the site and active frontages onto Park Road.

Axonometric bird's-eye view of The Precinct masterplan showing the housing blocks, cinema, café and clinic arranged around a pedestrian street and public lawn

Walking through

A new fragment of Teddington — at street level.

Three views into the scheme: the interstitial street, the café fronting Park Road, and the outdoor cinema wall.

Render of the interstitial pedestrian street at The Precinct with café tables, cargo bike, planted edges and warm brick housing
The pedestrian street connecting people and providing a space to chat.
Render of the public lawn beside The Beat Cafe with families, a dog and the curved brick frontage of the residential block
The Beat Cafe' — a work space for residents and a meeting place for Teddingtonians and continued grazing land for the Park Lane Stables ponies.
Render of an outdoor terrace looking towards The Precinct's outdoor cinema screen mounted on a brick wall
The outdoor cinema wall — an outdoor screen and stage for the neighbourhood.

Six uses, one site

What's proposed

12 homes, discounted homes for young professionals

12 affordable flats, discounted by at least 20% from market value. — biophilic, with terraces and balconies. Aimed at Self-Build / Self-Finish ownership for younger residents.

9 downsizer homes

9 courtyard houses — biophilic, with private gardens at ground floor or balconies on upper floors. Designed for over-65s downsizing within Teddington.

2-screen boutique cinema and bar

A 2-screen boutique independent cinema with its own bar.

Outdoor cinema screen

A free outdoor screen and stage for spoken-word, music and community events on summer evenings — open to all.

Co-working café

The Beat Cafe — a daytime co-working space for residents, freelancers and remote workers, and a neighbourhood meeting place for locals in the evenings.

GP clinic — 5 new GP consultation rooms

An additional surgery in the area with 5 new consultation rooms, serving the development and the wider Teddington community.

Biophilic design runs through every part of the scheme — greening each terrace is a condition of ownership.

Inside the homes

Daylit interiors with a view of the garden.

Biophilic, light-filled apartments and courtyard houses — designed around natural materials, parquet flooring and crittall-style glazing onto private gardens, courtyards and balconies. Each courtyard house has its own garden at ground floor or a balcony on upper floors.

Render of a Precinct apartment living room with parquet floor, full-height crittall doors to a terrace and a long timber media wall
Render of a bedroom with parquet floor, linen bedding and a perforated brick screen filtering light through a corner window
Render of a bedroom with built-in oak joinery looking out onto a planted private courtyard through full-height crittall glazing
Render of an apartment living room with a working fireplace, oak shelving and herringbone parquet flooring
Render of a compact courtyard-house kitchen and dining area with marble splashback, oak joinery and an ivy-covered window
Render of the boutique cinema screening room interior

A neighbourhood cinema

An independent picture-house at the heart of TW11.

Building on the success of the 2021 Teddington Cinema proposal, The Precinct includes a 2-screen boutique indoor cinema with its own bar.

Render of the cinema bar with warm lighting, timber finishes and casual seating
The cinema bar — open before and after screenings, and as a neighbourhood evening spot in its own right.

A new GP clinic

Five GP consultation rooms — calm, daylit, designed to heal.

An additional surgery in the area with 5 new consultation rooms, serving the development and the wider Teddington community. Set inside a brick-and-timber pavilion with planted courtyards, top-light and a quiet waiting space. Healthcare that feels like part of the neighbourhood, not a back-of-house annex.

Render of the clinic's central atrium with timber stair, brick walls and a red Japanese maple in a planted courtyard
Render of a GP consultation room with travertine walls, a courtyard window framing a Japanese maple, and warm timber finishes
Render of the clinic's waiting area with brick walls, terracotta floor, built-in timber seating and planted courtyards

Have your say

What does Teddington need from this site?

This is a community consultation — no decision is final yet. Tell us what you think of the proposal, and if you'd rather see something else, tell us that too.

1. Overall, do you support The Precinct proposal?*
2. How important is each proposed use to you?

1 = not important · 5 = essential

12 homes, discounted homes for young professionals
9 downsizer homes
2-screen boutique cinema and bar
Outdoor cinema screen
Co-working café
GP clinic — 5 new GP consultation rooms
3. What excites you most about the proposal?
4. Any concerns or things you'd want changed?
5. If not this proposal — what would you like to see on the site?
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