In a recent comment piece for Inside Housing, Angela Rayner voices the need forthe UK to rebuild its council housing stock, citing Kidbrooke Park Road as an illustration for the next generation of social housing.
“Over the summer, I went to the Kidbrooke Park development in south east London. It’s one of the country’s biggest new council housing schemes, and it’s exactly the kind of project I want our £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme to support.
It’s got a new nursery, there are new units for shops and the streets are lined with trees. It’s genuinely got everything people need, and I’m so happy it’s being recognised with countless awards.
What will always stick with me from that day in Kidbrooke was a conversation I had with one of the new residents. She told me that the day she first turned the keys in the front door, it felt like her lottery numbers had come up.” – Angela Rayner for Inside Housing
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The latest phase of Kidbrooke Park Road was recently visited by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan; Housing Secretary Angela Rayner; Minister Matthew Pennycook; and Tom Copley Hon FRIBA, who came together to announce that London has secured a record £11.7 billion in affordable housing funding over the next decade, the biggest and longest-term settlement the capital has ever received.
Delivered by the Royal Borough of Greenwich, the development provides 452 affordable family homes. Designed by HTA and built by Durkan for Greenwich Council and Greenwich Builds, the project has transformed previously inaccessible brownfield land into a net-zero development of 100% affordable council homes for the local community.
Kidbrooke Park Road also includes biodiverse landscaping, active play spaces, a nursery and a new community centre. It is one of the country’s largest new council housing schemes and demonstrates how previously underused land can be transformed into high-quality, genuinely affordable homes.
