Members of Wandsworth council’s planning committee have approved their own authority’s masterplan to redevelop the landmark post-war Alton Estate in south-west London with a scheme for more than 1,100 new homes.

The move comes three months after Wandsworth’s development partner, the housebuilder Redrow, walked away from the project as part of a wider refocusing of its activity away from the capital. Managing director Paul Muldowney said at the time that new home delivery in London was a challenge “compounded by increasing costs and a two-tier planning system”.

But Wandsworth has pushed ahead with the scheme, designed by Hawkins Brown, Barton Willmore and Tate Hindle, and the proposals have now been backed by all but one member of the authority’s planning applications committee.

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