Tenants in Hackney have branded the council’s new plan for the regeneration of the 2000-home Woodberry Down Estate as “unworkable” and “plain barmy”.
The new plan – voted through by the council’s cabinet on 26 January – will see a private developer brought in to build 121 affordable homes on a site key to the £440m regeneration scheme.

It had originally been intended to pass the site on to English Partnerships, to develop 350 temporary homes for tenants to live in while their homes were rebuilt. The council backed out of this plan and will now find sites in other parts of the borough to house tenants, causing a delay of at least two years.

Lorraine Braniff, chair of the Woodberry Down Estate Development Committee, said: “There has been no consultation with the wider estate. What is being proposed here will not work.”

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Housing Today