Barratt London has been selected to redevelop Catford Greyhound Stadium as a 500-home scheme.
The housebuilder was selected by the London mayor Boris Johnson today.
Its £117m redevelopment of the 11.6-acre site in Lewisham, south london, will see 589 new homes built, including 113 affordable homes, which will be managed by Gallions Housing Association, and 60 shared ownership properties.
The publicly owned stadium has been released by mayor Boris Johnson as part of his drive to unlock development on public sector-owned land to increase housing supply for Londoners and boost jobs and growth.
It is among the first tranche of sites released by the Greater London Authority since it became one of the capital’s largest public land owners last year.
Johnson, said: “London’s unbeatable allure means unprecedented demand for housing, and making public land available for development has a big part to play in meeting this. The transformation of Catford Dogs, which for the last decade has been left empty and unused, will not only bring hundreds of new homes to the heart of London, but will feed into the wider regeneration of Catford town centre, making it an even better place to live and injecting a healthy new dose of jobs and growth into one of the capital’s key opportunity areas.”
Alastair Baird, Barratt London regional managing director, added: “This is the fifth site we have secured in the capital in the past six months, bringing a total of 1,800 new homes to London. The site at Catford will add to our already significant presence in the borough of Lewisham, with our redevelopment of the town centre – Renaissance – which will provide a total of 788 new homes together with a new leisure centre due to open shortly.”
The former dog track sits between two key transport hubs, Catford Bridge and Catford railway station, and when complete will also feature around 5,000 sq ft of shops and 3,000 sq ft of community space.
Work is expected to begin by early next year, with completion in 2017.
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