King Sturge Residential team helps deliver Blair promise
28 March 2008
At last the forgotten Aylesbury Estate is to be regenerated
Aylesbury Estate now
Aylesbury Estate in the future
The residential agency team has been formally appointed as agents by London and Quadrant Group for a 260 apartment comprehensive redevelopment of the Aylesbury Estate in Walworth, SE17.
In 1997 this large council estate was home to Tony Blair’s first speech as PM where he promised an end to "no hope areas" blighting Britain's inner cities. Over 10 years later King Sturge provided consultancy advice to London and Quadrant during the rigorous selection process and in February 2008 they were finally selected as Southwark’s preferred partner to undertake the regeneration of the first phase of the Aylesbury Estate.
The first phase of this initiative involves the south west corner of the site fronting Albany Road and Burgess Park. It will provide 260 new apartments (140 private), a new state of the art Aylesbury Resource Centre and a small parade of retail units. The development now has planning permission and work is expected to start on site in autumn 2008 with the first completions in autumn 2010. Further phases to encompass the whole estate are in the master planning stage and will bring circa 5,000 new homes during the regeneration programme.
We hope that our work here will encourage a positive working relationship with L&Q going forward as housing associations become more involved in generating private apartments.
