Higgins completes affordable homes revamp for Ealing council

East London-based housebuilder Higgins has completed 68 homes for Ealing council, more than half of which are being made available for affordable rent.

The design and build project (pictured), worth £18m, replaced 20 existing homes at Peterhead Court on the Golf Links estate in Southall which had been deemed sub-standard.

Thirty six of the flats and four houses will be available at an affordable rent – described by the council as “well within reach of the average Ealing family” – while 18 flats will go for shared ownership and 10 for outright sale.

The council said a number of flats had already been let to existing tenants on the estate, while some of the homes up for sale would be sold to first-time buyers.

Built in the 1970s, the Golf Links Estate had been identified 11 years ago as one of a handful of high intervention estates in need of regeneration to bring it in line with the government’s Decent Homes standard.

As well as the new housing a successful community centre, housed for the past three decades in a series of portable buildings, has moved into a new purpose-built structure.