Publication
Joyce Newman and Joseph Lancaster Terrace

Posted on 1 September 2023

How do you build new housing, particularly in dense urban areas, with the support of local communities? That is the challenge facing many developers and local authorities seeking to provide much-needed housing. In London Bridge there may be a solution.

A partnership between the local community, coming together to form the Leathermarket Community Benefit Society (LCBS), and Southwark has just completed its second development comprising 40 genuinely affordable new flats and houses. In a unique collaboration Southwark has provided its own land and development funding with LCBS leading the development, retaining and managing the homes. The new homes are allocated 50/50 between local residents allocated by LCBS from surrounding estates with particular needs, and Southwark.

Read more about how this has been achieved, on a complex urban infill site in Mellis Haward’s review in Architecture Today.