Bulk of WW+P-designed development in south London will be for private sale
Peabody has completed work on more than 60 homes in south London near the site of its famous Camberwell Green Estate, which was built more than a century ago.
Built by Durkan and designed by a local firm of architects Weston Williamson & Partners, the new 66-home development features a mix of one, two and three-bedroom flats across a six-storey block next to Camberwell Green along Camberwell Road.
The six-storey development will also feature a number of retail units.
Nearby is a further block of six four-bedroom townhouses (pictured above).
Of the 66 homes 42 will be for private sale, while 13 will be for shared ownership, six for affordable rent and five for social rent.
The architect said modern methods of construction were used on the development, which saw a factory-built metal framed cassette system structure positioned on a raft foundation to protect a Victorian sewer pipe running beneath the site.
Angela Wood, Peabody’s development director, said WW+P had created “beautiful, modern blocks on Camberwell Green, perfectly complementing Peabody’s historic red-brick estate opposite”.
Peabody built the nearby Camberwell Green Estate (pictured below) in 1911 after architect Victor Wilkins won a competition for its design two years earlier.
It was the first of Peabody’s residential schemes to feature entirely self-contained plumbing, meaning the estate’s residents did not have to share sinks or toilets.
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