Entente cordiale: Octavia Housing and Care has won planning permission for its innovative White City housing development in west London.

An Anglo-French collaboration, the scheme is a demonstration project for the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and the Housing Corporation. It is being developed in parallel with a housing scheme in Paris in order to compare techniques in the provision of social housing.

Octavia’s development includes 78 homes – 45 for rent and 33 for shared ownership.