Fairview New Homes has gained planning permission to build more than 1,000 homes in two developments in south London.
The developer will carry out its first mixed-use project on a 7.9ha (19.5 acre) site in Woolwich, London SE18.
Greenwich council has granted planning permission for 484 homes and 6,550m2 (70,510 sq ft) of industrial and warehouse space on the Woolwich Church Street site. With river frontage to the Thames, the site is part of the original Royal Dockyard.
Fairview bought the site, which contained derelict warehousing, unconditionally last year. Fairview director Christopher Walker said: “Not only does this add another string to our development bow but it is also another example of our current policy to broaden our range of activities to cover all sectors of the housing market.”
There will be 354 flats – 282 of which will be on the river front – and 130 houses on the site. Prices are expected to start at £28,000 for a studio and rise to £94,000 for a four-bedroom house. Housing associations will have 50 houses in all.
The commercial element of the scheme will cover 1.58ha (3.8 acres) and provide B1/B8 production or warehouse space. It will be available as design and build, for lease or sale through Hunter Payne Commercial and Pyle Owen.
Fairview’s other development is in south-west London, where planning permission has been granted for 607 homes on the site of the former Tooting Bec Hospital.
Here, Fairview is undertaking a £42m development on 11.64ha (28 acres) to build 607 homes. Walker said: “The key to unlocking this site’s potential came at the start of this year when we were able to buy out the interests, subject to planning, of Crest Homes, which had intended to develop the site jointly with Tesco.”
One-bedroom flats will start at £37,000 and housing will range to executive family homes at £190,000. Fairview hopes to start on site in March next year with completion in December 2001.
