A leading provider of affordable housing is negotiating with “four or five” London councils to provide prefabricated homes for rent that would be used for a limited timeframe of just 10 to 15 years.
Peabody Trust said that modular “demountable” housing would be used on brownfield sites in inner cities, where demand for cheap housing was most acute.

Once the 32-unit developments had served their purpose, they would be taken down and “something more permanent” would be built instead.

Peabody chief executive Richard McCarthy said: “This would meet the government’s need to get people out of B&Bs. It would also help to provide a much larger pool of key worker housing.”

Three years ago Peabody Trust was involved in building and promoting one of the best-known modular prefabricated home developments at Murray Grove in Hackney, east London.

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Housing Today