Steve Douglas, London investment and regeneration director at the corporation, said the process of subregionally allocated funding had been piloted in a number of projects in London.
Douglas added that the schemes "reflected the success of associations in the capital … [they] were delivering innovation, pushing the boundaries on housing density and leading the way on mixed use".
Three of the projects are pictured above. Bloomfield Road in Greenwich is by Ujima Housing Association, St Mary's Village in Hackney, east London, is by Notting Hill Home Ownership and Metropolitan Home Ownership, and Ferry Quays in Hounslow, west London, is by Shepherd's Bush Housing Association.
Pictures of the schemes will be shown at today's London Development Conference, organised by the London Housing Federation. Readers are invited to guess the identities of the remaining schemes. A prize will be awarded to the winning entry when the RSLs responsible are revealed on 11 December.
Also launched at the Development Conference will be two reports commissioned by East Thames Housing Group, concluding a three-part series examining high-density housing in London.
Housing Density: What Do Residents Think? was carried out by the London School of Economics. It concluded that perceptions of high density housing were not as bad as many social housing bodies had feared.
High Density Housing in Europe was researched by architect PRP, which visited a number of schemes in Denmark and France.
It found that there was a need for a more sophisticated approach to building in the UK, involving all stakeholders at an early stage.
It also found that a key feature of successful high-density projects is cooperative management of communal spaces.
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Housing Today
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