Housing association wins two approvals for development in Merton
Clarion Group has won two planning approvals to deliver more than 600 extra homes in Merton, south London.
The housing association giant this week got the green light to revise part of its masterplan for the High Path estate to add an extra 568 new homes, including 227 affordable units to its final four phases.
The £1.3bn estate regeneration plan will now deliver 2,272 homes.
Clarion also received approval from Merton Councillors at this same meeting to build 98 homes on an island site it recently purchased on the river Wandle.
It secured approval to change an existing permission on the site to the tenure mix to ensure 100% social rented housing, with the number of units reduced from 116 to 98 to incorporate more larger sized family homes.
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Clarion’s wider regeneration of Merton is expected to provide around 3,300 new homes across its Eastfields, Ravensbury and High Path estates. Around 1,000 existing homes will be replaced, with an additional 2,300 new homes built over the next 15 years.
Richard Cook, group development director at Clarion, said: “Securing planning for these projects marks another significant milestone in our wider investment into Merton, where we are committed to building quality new affordable housing in priority pockets of the borough.
“We are immensely proud to be working with partners, including the council, to deliver vital homes to those who need them most in Merton. These two projects will transform the lives of thousands of local residents over the coming years.”
Cook told Housing Today earlier this month that he predicts Clarion to reach its 3,200-home annual housebuilding target within the next three of four years, bolstered by its 21,000-home pipeline.
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