Lambeth Council has loaned a further £5.5 million to its wholly-owned house building company, added to £5 million loaned last year. It comes as a progress report on Homes for Lambeth’s business plan for 2020-23, approved by cabinet on March 15, stated a lack of resident support was a “likely” risk to its regeneration programme. The council’s controversial programme, run by HfL, is focused on six estates, including Westbury, Knights Walk, South Lambeth, Central Hill, Cressingham Gardens, and Fenwick. The loaned money is expected to be paid back out of “project surpluses”, profit made from the new homes. But the Green opposition, who are against the demolition of the estates, have warned it is a risky strategy and HfL could end up like Croydon’s failing housing company Brick by Brick.
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Cressingham Gardens was built between 1969 and 1979 to the designs of Ted Hollamby
A 20-home scheme which will require part of Tulse Hill’s historic Cressingham Gardens estate to be demolished has been recommended for approval by Lambeth council.
The four-storey Conran and Partners-designed block on Roper’s Walk for the council’s in-house housing firm Homes for Lambeth will replace two lower-rise blocks consisting of 14 homes, the first part of the estate to be redeveloped.
It has provoked a searing backlash from Cressingham Gardens residents, who have been engaged in a near 10-year campaign to save the 306-home estate since the council first earmarked it for redevelopment in 2012.
Residents call on Lambeth to stop piecemeal demolition of Hollamby estate Digital Edition: Residents call on Lambeth to stop piecemeal demolition of Hollamby estate Residents and conservationists are calling for the protection of a garden estate in south London after a fresh set of plans emerged for its partial demolition
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