Newham adopts new housing strategy

The London borough of Newham has adopted a new housing strategy, which aims to ‘build more and better homes for local people’.

According to the council, the strategy puts local people at the heart of housing, making sure that they are involved in the co-design of all development schemes led by London borough.

It also highlights progress with Carpenters Estate, the most significant estate restoration programmes in London, including the planned ballot of residents to be held this summer on proposals that have been shaped by local people, and the refurbishment of the James Riley Point tower block, which will deliver 132 social rent homes.

In addition, the strategy sets out a massive £96m three-year council homes maintenance programme, starting with a comprehensive stock condition survey, to repair and refurbish homes with the highest levels of safety and sustainability principals applied.

‘Our strategy will improve our existing council homes, ensure all our current property is fit for purpose and deliver more environmentally friendly [houses] so our residents have the homes they rightly deserve,’ said cabinet member for housing services, Cllr Shaban Mohammed.

‘We will do all we can to prevent and alleviate homelessness with investment in a new centre of excellence to support those who experience street homelessness. Crucially we will be working with all partners to avoid a potential tsunami of evictions as a result of the Covid-19 economic crisis.

‘Newham has a bright future and we are working together with residents to improve and invest in the neighbourhoods that they are proud to call home. This strategy will help us deliver these promises.’

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