Kipling Estates secures planning

igloo have been acting as development managers for the Leathermarket Community Benefit Society who are looking to bring forward a new residential led development on the site of existing garages on the Kipling Estate adjacent to Weston Street, SE1 (Bermondsey, London). The development of the site offers the opportunity to provide much needed genuinely affordable homes in the local area, designed specifically by and for the local community. The proposals cover 27 apartments and maisonettes, include 3 wheelchair accessible flats, communal gardens and a communal terrace. Although not an igloo Regeneration Fund project, the team have been using footprint principles to guide the designs and management plans. The development has featured in a piece in the Guardian, noting that "the involvement of tenants in a forthcoming council rent level housing development near the Shard could be a beacon for the rest of the capital." You can find a link to the article on the right.

The architect for the scheme is locally based Bell Phillips Architects.