Half the 230 homes on Croydon Council-owned development job will be affordable
Croydon council’s housing development arm, Brick by Brick, has appointed Henry Construction to build two new residential schemes in the borough, providing 230 homes.
The Hounslow-based contractor started work last month on Kindred House, a 25-storey mixed use scheme featuring 128 new one, two and three-bedroomed homes above office and retail space on the site of a council-owned car park next to the A232 flyover in central Croydon.
Planning was approved for the Pitman Tozer Architects’ scheme in June last year. Half the homes will be offered through affordable rent or shared ownership.
Henry Construction will also build Belgrave and Grosvenor, an HTA Design development containing 102 homes in a 17-storey tower and two four-storey blocks at the junction of Belgrave Road and Grosvenor Road in South Norwood.
The development, planning for which was given last December, will be built on amenity space located alongside two existing 11-storey blocks of flats on the site, providing a range of one, two and three bedroomed homes. Work is expected to start in either April or May.
Commenting on Henry Construction’s appointment Colm Lacey, Brick by Brick’s chief executive, said in a statement: “Design and build quality is extremely important to us and we are only interested in working with contractors who share that commitment.”
Brick by Brick has completed two HTA-designed schemes in Upper Norwood, which are due to go on sale in the next couple of months and will be offered to Croydon residents for a two-month period, and expects to complete a further 232 homes throughout 2019.
Henry Construction, which was appointed through an open competitive bidding process, worked on Argent’s Kings Cross redevelopment project and the Boiler House residential scheme on Hub’s Old Vinyl Factory project in Hayes.
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