PA Housing looking to build 80 homes in south London

PA Housing is on the hunt for contractors to design and build more than 80 homes on two sites in south-east London in deals worth a total of £15.4m.

The Southwark-based housing association is looking to build two schemes, one in Woolwich, in the borough of Greenwich, the other in Sydenham, which is in the borough of Lewisham.

In Woolwich the group plans to build 48 homes – 45 flats and three houses – on the site of the Sunbury Lodge care home (pictured) in a deal worth an estimated £8.7m.

The development, which already has planning, will see 14 one-bedroom, 21 two-bedroom and 10 three-bedroom flats, and three two-bedroom houses, built in one four-storey block.

The work is expected to take two years to complete.

And in Sydenham, PA Housing is looking to build 33 homes on a site formerly occupied by the area’s former police station, prior to the building’s demolition.

The development, which is worth an anticipated £6.7m and comes with planning, will deliver a mix of one, two and three-bedroom flats in a part-four and part-five storey scheme.

Once a contractor has been signed up the work is expected to take 20 months to complete.

PA Housing, formed two years ago through the merger of Asra Housing Association and Leicester Housing Association with Paragon Community Housing, manages 23,000 homes in London, Surrey and the Midlands.

According to its latest corporate plan the group hopes to build around 500 homes a year split between 50% affordable rent – some of which will be for social rent – plus 40% shared ownership and intermediate rent, and 10% for market sale.