Council plans to add 54 homes to 1970s Bemerton Estate
Islington council has unanimously approved its own plans to expand a north London housing estate.
Proposals designed by Levitt Bernstein to add 54 homes to the Bemerton Estate on Caledonian Road were given sign off at a planning committee yesterday evening.
Built in the early 1970s, the estate consists of a communal garden surrounded by around 700 homes in 14 blocks, including a garage building with a ball games court on its roof.
This garage will be demolished and replaced with a nine-storey building containing 27 flats for market sale, two social rent flats and one shared ownership unit.
Other interventions include the construction of a new four-storey residential block on an existing surface car park site, the replacement of the Cally Resource Centre with a five-storey extension to a housing block, and the conversion of some garage and community space into further housing.
Councillors raised concerns at yesterday’s meeting regarding the loss of the estate’s ball games court, although the council has committed to relocating the court to a nearby site.
Planning officers concluded the scheme overall was of a “high quality design” which would provide a policy-compliant uplift in housing in the area.
The project team includes planning consultant HTA Design, structural engineer Tellet Engineering, heritage consultant KM Heritage, M&E engineer Max Fordham and fire consultant Affinity Fire Engineering. Levitt Bernstein is also landscape architect.
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