Are rooftop developments the answer to London’s housing crisis?

Airspace developers tell us to imagine thousands of new homes atop existing buildings – but to make that happen they need planners to share their vision.

Imagine a world where there is enough space in London for the hundreds of thousand of new homes it needs – without building soaring skyscrapers or letting the city limits sprawl – where it’s no longer a case of scrambling for every scrap of land. You don’t need to imagine: it’s already true.

Or so say a new breed of specialist developers, who claim we have much more land than we think. According to airspace developers, there is enough suitable rooftop space – on top of existing residential, commercial and mixed-use buildings across the country’s capital – to create up to 200,000 homes.

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