Clarion Housing Group has completed the purchase of a strategic site that will allow it to start development at High Path in south Wimbledon.
The group intends to build 2,800 homes across High Path and two neighbourhoods in Mitcham, Eastfields and Ravensbury as part of the Merton regeneration scheme.
Andrew McGarvie, head of land at Clarion Housing Group, said: “We are pleased to have completed this important land purchase which stitches together a new site with an existing asset.”
The first phase will be built on the Old Lampworks site and adjacent garages. Earlier this year Merton Council granted planning permission for 134 homes to be built on the land.
Under the proposals Clarion will redevelop the estates and rehouse all existing tenants and resident homeowners who wish to remain.
Construction is due to start in summer 2018.
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