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Greenwich build to rent scheme wins housing design award
this year's Housing Design Awards. Creekside Wharf, which is being developed
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and managed by Essential Living, will deliver 249 new homes in Greenwich. The scheme will provide a large number of
affordable homes with wide corridors, buggy storage spaces, acoustic insulation, child play areas and public realms, making it suitable for family renters. The Project Award recognised the project's
innovative design, amenity spaces and discount market rent offer (DRM), which will apply to a quarter of the homes. Matthew Lamb, development manager at
Essential Living, said: “We’re delighted to have won this award, which is fantastic recognition of our work in making a scheme that kept families in mind at every step of the design process.” Russell Pedley, director at Assael Architecture
who designed the scheme, added: “Our ethos is that a resident’s home starts at the front door of
major build to rent scheme designed exclusively for families has won the Project Award for a PRS Development at
the building, not the front door of their apartment. Our focus on amenity space was integral in giving our buildings that strong sense of community to ensure residents want to stay there for the long-term.” Creekside Wharf, due to be completed in
2017, is part of Essential Living’s pipeline of 5,000 homes for rent across London and the South East. The Housing Design Awards are the longest
running awards programme in the country, having been launched in 1948 as a government initiative to promote well-designed and healthy homes. The panel was made up of leading industry
and public sector figures from RICS, RIBA, the GLA and the Department for Communities and Local Government, among others.
“The scheme will provide a large number of affordable homes”
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