New Council Housing

New Council Housing for Islington

Introduction

Homes for Islington, working in partnership with Islington Council, have recently completed the first new homes to be built in the borough in over 20 years.

Phase 1 completed in October 2009 and provided 14 new family homes.

The two sites completed are:

Boleyn Road
Armour Close

Please click on the links above for further information on each of the sites.

Phases 2 and 3 of the new build programme are in progress and consist of three sites. These schemes are:

Neptune House
Clifton Court
Docura House

Please click on the links above for further information on each of the sites.

New houses, maisonettes and flats are proposed for development. Where possible these are larger family sized homes, as these are hardest to find in the borough and there is a high demand for this kind of family accommodation. They will help to relieve the borough’s overcrowded families and increase the number of family homes Islington Council can offer through HFI.

Q&As Islington New Build for Residents (pdf file 115Kb)

Who is developing the sites?
The homes being built will be council housing, owned by Islington Council. Homes for Islington will be managing this process as well as being responsible for the day-to-day management of the new homes, once completed.

The building work will be carried out by a contractor, supervised by HFI, and appointed through HFI procurement process. A Framework Contract is being developed for the new build schemes.

All the sites being developed are on council owned land and will remain in council ownership.

Mansell Construction Services were appointed to undertake the works at Boleyn Road and Armour Close, The Apollo Group have been appointed as the contractor for Clifton Court and Neptune House, and Breyer has been appointed to the Docura House development.

Standards
The new housing will be built to the Housing Corporation Design Quality Standards. The work will also meet the council’s sustainability standards as set out in the planning and policy guidance.
The completed Boleyn Road development was designed to Code Level 4 for Sustainable Homes, and as such reducing the carbon-footprint for this scheme.

Planning permission
Planning permission was granted for Clifton Court in October 2008, Neptune House in February 2009 and Docura House in March 2009.

Planning applications have also been submitted for the following sites:

Otley House
Elthorne Estate Sites 6 and 7
Belfont Walk Sites 1 and 2
Graham Street
Bennett Court Site 11
Holbrooke Court Sites 8 and 9
143 Seven Sisters Road

Please click on the links above for further information on each of the sites.

Funding the sites
The funding of phase 1– Boleyn Road and Armour Close, plus the development on Clifton Court will be financed through Islington Council. In addition Islington will fund 50% of the costs for new development schemes, with the remainder being funded from Homes Communities Agency (HCA) grant.