24 CASE STUDY
Making social virtue from necessity
Lollard Street in Lambeth, London, from a social housing JV between the Canary Wharf Group and Qatari Diar, offers high specification at council rent. It’s the result of a developer taking a decision to pursue a scheme that enabled a much larger development while offering community value, as Jack Wooler reports.
Canary Wharf Group and Qatari Diar, in a JV named Braeburn Estates. The 89-home residential offering comprises one 16-storey tower block, one seven-storey tower block, and four four-storey blocks – all made up of one and two bedroom apartments – and a further 15 three-storey townhouses with four bedrooms each. 70 of these units are for council level
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rent, and 19 are designated for private sale, all delivered alongside a nursery and children’s centre, communal gardens, and public realm improvements. The development revitalises land
previously occupied by a “problematic” car park block, which had fallen into disrepair and was attracting anti-social behaviour. The JV intends to remedy this and give the area new life, providing high specification homes for social and private residents alike. In order to fulfil this vision, architecture
practice Darling Associates was employed to design the homes, and Homes for Lambeth has taken control of the affordable units. Braeburn Estates shouldered all the construction and regeneration costs/risks, with Lambeth Council celebrating taking handover of the completed project at an event on 18 January 2019.
GETTING STARTED The catalyst for Lollard Street was the redevelopment around the Shell Centre in Lambeth into Southbank Place, a major development by the JV to revitalise the area around the Shell Centre Tower with a large number new homes, office space and a renewed public realm. In order to get the project through planning however, Lambeth Council revealed the need for large affordable family homes, which wouldn’t have been the easiest to develop on this site. Howard Dawber, managing director of
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orn out of a Section 106 agreement, Lollard Street in Lambeth delivers the first social homes from the
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