Sisk and Quintain have announced the completion of its latest phase at Wembley Park, which includes its newest Build-to-Rent building, Solar. Its 487 new homes follow the delivery of sister building Luna’s 282 homes earlier this year.
These milestones build on Wembley Park’s enduring reputation as one of London’s leading case studies of urban transformation success, after being named in The Sunday Times’ Best Places to Live 2025.
Solar, delivered by Sisk, marks one of London’s first successful Gateway 3 approvals under the Building Safety Act – testament to the expertise and excellence of Quintain’s in-house team and development partners.
Solar, together with Luna, is the first Quintain project to benefit from the developer’s embodied carbon construction targets, introduced through its Sustainability Brief for Development. Demonstrating Quintain’s commitment to sustainable development, these targets were set early in the design stage, with designers and contractors required to report against these targets as part of their appointments.
Now complete, Solar has achieved 473kgCO₂ₑ/m², complying with both Quintain’s sustainability targets and current day equivalent UK Net Zero Buildings Standard limits. This sets a new benchmark for upfront carbon at Wembley Park and saves over 16,500 tCO2 from comparably designed schemes delivered before Quintain’s Sustainability Brief for Development was introduced.
Sisk, delivered Solar with key suppliers to the scheme including architects Haworth Tompkins, Stace, Elliott Wood Structural Engineers, Griffiths Evans MEP Consultants, Jensen Hughes Fire Consultants, Gross Max and BHSLA Landscape Architects, Cumming Group Project and Cost Managers, Carney Sweeney Planning Consultants, Feix & Merlin Interior Designers and Buro Happold Infrastructure Engineer & Sustainability Consultants.
Spread across three buildings, with nine, 12 and 27 storeys, the pet-friendly apartments range from studios to three-bedroom homes, with a variety of layouts. All homes feature high quality appliances and fittings and are available furnished or unfurnished. Solar’s outstanding amenity spaces, totalling 23,907 sq ft, include a 1,228 sq ft state-of-the-art gym and a 2,947 sq ft residents’ lounge.
James Saunders, CEO of Quintain, said: “The successful delivery of Solar – one of London’s first Gateway 3 approvals - marks a milestone for Quintain at Wembley Park, with 6,000 new homes now delivered by our team across the estate. This, together with Union Park, the new HQ for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra as part of a major partnership with Quintain and the London Borough of Brent and an additional new community centre, reinforces our commitment to the rapidly evolving neighbourhood, recently voted one of the best places to live in the UK.”
Matt Voyce, Executive Director of Construction for Quintain said: "There are 27 plots at Wembley Park, 13 of them complete by Sisk. In 2021, they signed the largest ever contract for Solar and Luna. Luna is 90 percent occupied and Solar is 75 percent occupied. The buildings are so innovative and environmentally friendly with 45 percent reduction of embodied carbon compared with 2021 comparables. The Building Safety Act was a real challenge, collaboration was key with a successful outcome. This approach has allowed us to deliver many components of the building using off site manufacture, reducing material wastage, noise, dust and vehicle movements, whilst also allowing us to continue to deliver high quality buildings within a skills gap environment.”
Ger Hayes, MD, Sisk said: “Delivering Solar is a major milestone for Sisk as we mark over 20 years in partnership with Quintain at Wembley Park. Solar has also been delivered against the backdrop of some outstanding innovations on-site maximising MMC with over 2.2million hours worked, RIDDOR free. It’s a genuine partnership with Quintain built on honesty and integrity. The journey has been unbelievable and it’s the most sustainable building that we have completed at Sisk (Solar). It only happens with trusted partnerships.”