Brick by Brick, the council’s development company, has secured a string of planning permissions over the past couple of weeks.
The private company, set up last year with the aim of building around 1,000 homes across Croydon, is an attempt to tackle the housing shortage while bringing development profit back to the local authority.
Schemes recently improved include:
Auckland Rise and Sylvan Hill, Upper Norwood: 38 private homes and 19 shared ownership units on small infill sites on this attractive and wooded sloping site;
Drovers Road, South Croydon: Nine one-bedrooms flats built in a single storey building on the car park to the rear of flats in Drovers Road;
Heathfield Gardens, South Croydon: A total of 19 flats and one house on the site of 16 existing garages.
Longheath Gardens Estate, Ashburton: Plans for a total of 30 one-bedroom flats and 23 two-bedroom flats following the demolition of 40 garages on the estate, with extra parking spaces being built for existing residents.
Station Road, South Norwood: A four and five-storey development of ten one-bed and four two-bed flats plus space for a shop and restaurant;
Tollers Lane Estate, Old Coulsdon: Demolition of garages, an electricity substation, bin stores and a community centre to make way for four one-bed and 14 two-bed flats, plus four two-bed and 18 three-bed houses.
In line with several other boroughs across the capital, Croydon brought forward its own development company with the intention of supplying 1,000 new homes by 2019.
Brick by Brick is a private, independent company, with the council acting as sole shareholder. It aims to deliver high quality, new, residential-led development on a range of sites across the borough.
The council says: “The aim of Brick by Brick is to ensure people in Croydon have access to high quality and affordable housing.
“It also means that the full value of development growth is kept in the borough – whether it be in the form of additional affordable housing, physical improvements in the local centres or dividend return to the council to fund council services.”