Harrow council’s cabinet has agreed to take forward a pilot project to build 48 modular rooftop homes on top of seven tower blocks.

Under the deal, the London local authority will lease the airspace above existing council homes on the Berridge estate to Apex Airspace, a specialist developer of modular rooftop housing.

Apex Airspace will use grant funding from the Greater London Authority to finance due diligence and the planning permission application process and then seek further funding from a lender at a later stage in the project. The council will then buy the completed homes and let them to people in priority housing need.