In the early 20th century the Municipal Borough of Heston and Isleworth had been based at council offices in Treaty Road.

[1] In the early 1960s, civic leaders decided this arrangement would be inadequate for their needs in the context of the impending creation of the London Borough of Hounslow and decided to purchase land for a purpose-built civic centre:[2] the site selected for the new facility, located just north of Lampton Park on Lampton Road, had previously been open land.

[3] Once the London Borough of Hounslow had been formed in 1965,[4] the new civic leaders proceeded to procure a new building.

[5] The new building, which was designed by the borough architect, George Trevett, was officially opened on 17 November 1975.

[7][8][9] Following the completion of the council's relocation to its new headquarters, Hounslow House, at Bath Road in April 2019,[10][11] the main building was decommissioned and the site was handed over for the second phase of the residential development in summer 2019.