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Plans for new Eltham housing scheme move forward with every home being 'affordable'

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Vincent
Published date15 April 2024
Publication titleMyLondon (England)
The project on Riefield Road would see the existing social housing block on the site being knocked down. Council documents said the homes, built in the 1970s, were currently vacant and described the current site as being in such a deteriorated state that they were ‘not fit for human habitation’

The scheme was put forward by Greenwich Council under its affordable housing developer, Meridian Home Start Limited. It will go before the council's planning board on April 16 to determine whether planning permission will be granted.

Planning documents from Cartwright Pickard Architects on behalf of Meridian Home Start said the new L-shaped building would offer flats at 65 per cent of market rent levels. Over half of the site would see landscape improvements such as new trees. An outdoor communal space by way of a courtyard garden that will be overlooked by the flats is also planned.

The block has gone through a series of redesigns after the planning board refused a similar scheme stretching up to 9 storeys-tall in August 2022 for being too high and inappropriate for the location. The current, revised project has received 81 objections from neighbours, criticising the scale and height of the building and claiming it would still appear visually intrusive.

Conservative Councillor Pat Greenwell...

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