| Stable Way CLICK HERE
| Westway Stables CLICK HERE
| Westway Sports Centre CLICK HERE
| Maxilla Walk and Gardens CLICK HERE
| Malton Road CLICK HERE
| LiquidNation Bar & Music Venue CLICK HERE
| Thorpe Close CLICK HERE
| Portobello Green Arcade(Under the Westway Flyover) CLICK HERE
| Portobello Road Shops (Under the Westway Flyover) CLICK HERE
| NOVA New Opportunities CLICK HERE
| Acklam Studio Workshops CLICK HERE
| Supperclub CLICK HERE
| BaySixty6 Skatepark CLICK HERE
| Bay 67 CLICK HERE |
Stable Way
This industrial area is located at the White City (Western) end of the estate and is represented by the orange area on the map. It comprises units, lock-ups and yards ranging in size from 600 sq ft to 2,200 sq ft. Currently our tenants include mechanics, furniture restorers and a car hire company.
Westway Stables
This part of the land is also home to the Westway Stables, a riding arena where children and adults can learn to ride and appreciate horses. Up to 20 horses are stabled on site and some activities are organised in cooperation with Westway Sports Centre.
Westway Sports Centre
Next to the Stables, beneath the roundabout, is the impressive Westway Sports Centre. Not only does the Sports Centre boast Britain�s largest indoor climbing centre, but also 8 indoor acrylic and 4 outdoor clay tennis courts, plus 5 training and 1 full size football pitch. There is also a netball court, a basketball court, a gym with wheelchair accessible equipment and a licensed bar, Crussh café and Urban Rock sports shop - find out more about Westway Sports Centre
Maxilla Walk and Gardens
This area includes shops, Maxilla Social Club and Bramleys Big Adventure an adventure playcentre for children, including a café for their parents. Further east along Maxilla Walk is the Maxilla Nursery and School and the RBKC Training Centre. Bordering these buildings is Maxilla Gardens; a green area maintained by our gardeners. Every year the Trust holds a Guy Fawkes Bonfire and Firework display on this site this event has been going for over 20 years and is enjoyed by 100s of local children and adults.
Malton Road
Malton Road consist of eight light industrial units. The units range in size from 3,150 sq ft to 10,250 sq ft. Currently our tenants include Nu-Line Builders Merchants, car mechanics and Woman�s Education in Building - a charity dedicated to training women in the building trade.
LiquidNation: Bar & Music Venue
At the end of Malton Road, facing onto Ladbroke Grove, is iconic urban venue LiquidNation [formerly known as Ion].This fashionable club bar and music venue, housed in a striking modernist glass cube is managed and operated Vince Power Music Group
CLICK HERE FOR www.vpmg.net
Thorpe Close
Thorpe Close comprises 32 offices, which are home to 22 charities and two creative businesses (a TV production company and a web search specialist). The charity offices on Thorpe Close are leased at one-third of the market rate, to registered charities whose work benefits the Kensington and Chelsea area.
In the middle of Thorpe Close is the Portobello Green Fitness Club where facilities include squash courts, a fully equipped gym, free weights area, a wide range of fitness classes, plus café bar, beauty treatment rooms, acupuncture and a sports injury clinic.
At the end of Thorpe close is the trendy Portobello Green Arcade housing 25 retail units. Tenants here include fashion designers, jewellers, home furnishings and two cafes. All the units are for businesses making their own goods on site though some have now expanded with manufacturing facilities elsewhere including at our own Acklam Workshops.
Thorpe Close also hosts markets 4 days a week. On Thursday there is the organic food market under the Market Tent and on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays the ever-popular Portobello Road markets runs under the attractively designed Market Tent and onto Thorpe Close where up to 200 stalls can be put-up. Many of these sell original clothing, collectables and fashion items for which the market is justifiably known across the world.
To top off Thorpe Close there is beautiful Portobello Green. Our gardeners take a lot of pride in planting and maintaining interesting flowering and foliage plants here, while maturing trees planted in 1977 provide shade and contrast. People can either laze in the sunshine on the soft grass, or sit under the shelter of the trees and on the park benches.
Portobello Green Arcade (Under the Westway, three entrances, two from Thorpe Close and one at number 281 Portobello Road)
Portobello Green Arcade was recently selected as one of the top 'one-stop' fashion and designer shopping arcades in London by the 2009 Time Out Shopping & Services Guide - The essential London Sourcebook and Portobello's top fashion and design arcade was in esteemed company with only 6 venues listed, including Burlington Arcade in Piccadilly!
Portobello Green offers genuinely original gifts for any recipient across its 20 unique boutiques ranging from unique mod-inspired menswear by Adam of London to women's catwalk fashion, via jewellry from Isis and Sarah Bunting, bags and accessories from Verde, unique clothing and bags made from vintage fabrics by Poppy Valentine, herbal delights from Zarvis, kids clothing from Sasti, and both vintage and contemporay lingerie and corsetry from What Katie Did, not to mention all manner of accessories and even fine tailoring!
Other brands you'll know include London & New York Fashion Week regulars Preen, hot label Millau and new designers such as Sharon Obiozor with her Made With Love label, but the real surprises and perfect gifts might just as well come from the niche collections offered by Japanese designer specialists Relax Garden or Philmore Clague's unique fashion, cut in Portobello and sold around the world; or the leading edge yet wearable womens fashions available from Valli, Brazilian fusionistas Genel or Portobello's own modern womens' classicists, Baby Ceylon.
The arcade is open on Saturdays until 7pm in the run-up to Christmas; and many boutiques now also open on Sundays.
The shops prosper through the week and many of the designers there have moved on from the weekend markets that bring in excess of 100,000 visitors to the area.
For more info ansd links to the shops own websitesCLICK HERE TO GO TO www.portobellodesigners.com WEBSITE
or see the Creative Workspace area of this site at CLICK HERE TO THE CREATIVE WORKSPACE SECTION OF THIS WEBSITE
Portobello Road Shops (Under the Westway Flyover)
Here there are three restaurants, Sausage & Mash - the original site of this iconic London mini-chain, Makan the Indonesian masters and recent addition Camino whose Mexican burrito offerings have got to be the most authentic this side of Tijuana. Finally long-established health food and organic shop, Portobello Wholefoods completes the top quality food offer. The shops prosper through the week from Portobello Road's good name for great food, and also from the weekend markets that can bring thousands of visitors to the area.
NOVA New Opportunities, 2 Acklam Road
NOVA New Opportunities is a well-established training organisation with its roots in the voluntary sector but a long track record of delivering professional training and work-oriented education, particularly to women and to members of migrant communities and with a focus on IT skills. However NOVA also offer a top-class range of training facilities and courses to public, private and voluntarty secor alike. In 2009 NOVA replaced the Portobello Business Centre in this suite of 3,500 square feet of officev space overlooking Portobello Road. The Business Centre has now relocated down Acklam Road to Barley Shotts Industrial Estate adjacent to westbourne Studios and the Islamic Cultural Heritage Centre (and mosque). NOVA has been running for over 10 years and was previously located at Canalside House. A successful and well-regarded organisation NOVA are a huge asset to the area.
Acklam Studio Workshops
There are 26 units in the Acklam Studio Workshops. The units range in size from 239 sq ft to 1,268 sq ft. The units are functional and versatile and can be transformed into stylish offices, practical artist studios, or light manufacturing units. The current mix of tenants includes record producers, sculptors and painters, fashion designers and a local charity.
Supperclub
This nightclub is part of an international group and was recently given a complete interior refit offering a unique dining and members club experience.
BaySixty6 Skatepark
A well-designed and practical skating area, the skate park takes up two whole bays and provides skating challenges from the novice skater right through to the professional level. It is one of the most popular skate parks in London and the fact it is sheltered by the flyover makes it even more attractive for its users. CLICK HERE TO GO TO BAYSIXTY6 SKATEPARK WEBSITE
Bay 67
This is a large empty bay is rented out and used either as a car park or as a backdrop for music videos, commercials and films. This bay is earmarked for development as a youth media training centre and the 3.5million necessary is currently being fundraised by local charity and Trust tenant The Video College (formerly known as North Kensington Video Drama Project).
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