ECD Architects is set to get the go-ahead for an infill project that will create seven new family homes for social rent on the site of a west London housing estate’s garage block.

The practice’s proposals were drawn up for Westminster council and will deliver a terrace of three-storey, three-bedroom homes on land currently occupied by 32 garages at the centre of Lapworth Court, near Little Venice.

Planning officers are recommending the scheme for approval at a meeting of the council’s planning applications committee this evening. The scheme would contribute to the authority’s target of delivering 1,850 new affordable homes by 2023 and its broader target of delivering 1,495 new homes a year for the next decade.

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