New Homes for Homeless Lewisham Families
More than 60 new council homes are to be built in Lewisham after the council planners approved a number of applications.
The successful proposals approved by the planning committee include 32 new council houses on Mayow Road in Perry Vale. Twenty-seven flats will be offered to homeless families while six will be built as supported living for residents with learning difficulties or autism.
The Mayor of Lewisham, Damien Egan, spoke to the residents at Blackheath assembly earlier this month, stating: “There is a rising housing crisis in Lewisham”. Egan’s shared that his own experience of homelessness as a child has inspired his approach to tackling the housing crisis in Lewisham. One of the Council’s top priorities is to deliver 1,000 new social homes by 2022.
Egan stated: “Housing families in temporary accommodation is not an efficient use of public money, and it’s not great for the people in that situation.” Lewisham Council says that the supported living homes in Perry Vale will “help residents to live more independently in a safe, inclusive and integrated setting.”
Elsewhere in the borough, planning has been approved for 39 new council homes in Bampton Green for residents over the age of 55. The new homes will occupy a site currently used as a ball court and garages which the council say will be moved to another site on the Estate. This was due to members of the Council’s planning committee unanimously voting to grant planning permission for the new council homes on the Bampton estate.
The council is currently regenerating a number of existing estates by building new properties on sites such as the Brampton Estate and Mayow Road. Construction on both sites are set to begin in the summer of 2020 and to be completed by summer 2022.
