Property News · July 23, 2016

London housing: Lambeth's Pockets of affordability


A new kind of compact home for middle income Londoners looks to be part of the new mayor’s plansIt’s nice to do the Lambeth Walk. Any evening. Any day. On Thursday, the south London street made famous by the musical Me and My Girl was sauntered down by the elite of the capital’s housing geeks – politicians, borough planners, roving consultants – to see a frontier example of old-style, low cost London dwellings accommodating the very newest kind.The China Walk estate was built by the London County Council between 1928 and 1934, its completion achieved just three years before Noel Gay’s hit show was first performed. Today, an extra 70 units are being fitted into two spaces – a former car park and a garage space – among its half-dozen interwar blocks, built in Bedford, brought to the capital by truck and assembled on site at rapid speed. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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