Existing Grange Farm residents will get first dibs on replacement homes for social rent
Harrow council has given the go-ahead for the £130m redevelopment of Grange Farm housing estate, which will eventually deliver nearly 600 homes, nearly half of them for social rent.
With a masterplan put together by architect Hawkins/Brown, the 574 homes due to built as part of a scheme to regenerate the estate will include 249 for social rent and 274 affordable.
The current estate of prefab Resiform homes, built in the 1960s, will be replaced and existing residents will be able to swap their “tired old properties for modern, spacious, high-quality homes”, according to Graham Henson, leader of Harrow council, while other families will be moving to the new development.
Residents in the existing 282 Grange Farm homes on the estate will be given priority and will be rehoused in the new homes on the estate.
A contractor is expected to be appointed by early next month and work on the first phase of the development is expected to start in the autumn of this year.
The scheme underwent what Hawkins/Brown called “an intensive consultation process with current estate residents.
“The design team worked together with the residents’ steering group and the wider community throughout the design process, incorporating their feedback into the design of the new homes and the wider masterplan,” it added.
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