Collaboration between supermarket and Weston Homes to provide 1,280 homes in Goodmayes
Weston Homes and supermarket Tesco have secured a resolution to grant planning permission for their joint plans for a 1,280-home urban village in Goodmayes, east London.
The pair secured the go-ahead from Redbridge council to transform the 10.4 acre Tesco store and car park into a new community called Lorimer Village which it claimed would have a gross development value of half a billion pounds.
The scheme includes re-providing the Tesco, alongside plans for 14 separate towers, rising to 22 storeys. It will also include a three-form primary school, village hall, landscaped garden and public transport improvements.
In a statement the firms said the scheme would take around eight years to build out, with a start on site expected in early 2022.
The scheme, of which 35% will be affordable housing, was designed by RDA Architects, with Allen Pyke acting as landscape consultants
The name of the scheme references Arts & Craft architect Robert Lorimer, who was a pioneer in the building of green suburbs. It includes nearly eight acres of landscaped gardens and parks.
Parking for the Tesco and residents will be provided underneath the development. The scheme will also include brown roofs and be 100% electric powered, making use of 682 solar PV panels on the roofs of the scheme.
Bob Weston, chairman and chief executive of Weston Homes, said: “There is an urgent need to provide more low-cost housing for Londoners, so collaborations like this between major retailers and housebuilders make an important contribution.”
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