Chalkhill in Brent is an extreme example of a high-density system-built 1960s local authority housing estate of some 1,200 six to eight storey flats where traditional urban characteristics, from access and parking arrangements, road layout, architectural scale and detail through to spatial organisation and social values were ignored in the celebration of the economies of scale and the apparent logic of the industrialised production of structural building components.

The London Borough of Brent invited teams comprising housing association, contractor and professionals to put forward development and financial proposals.