Lambeth (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Lambeth Council issues a progress update on its New Homes Programme, highlighting significant advances in delivering high-quality and affordable housing.
Lambeth continues to experience one of the most acute housing problems in the UK, with increased homelessness, long waiting lists, and too many families living in temporary or overcrowded accommodation.
The disastrous lack of social casing in Lambeth and beyond reflects the public failure over the last two decades to produce the new houses our communities plaintively need.
In response, the council has re-committed to creating additional social and affordable houses as part of its borough-wide creating for Lambeth plan.
Since its beginning, the New houses Programme has made tremendous headway, winning planning approval and preparing delivery for more than 1,000 new houses, even in the face of escalating construction costs, financial limits and national financing issues.
Councillor Danny Adilypour, Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Housing, Investment and New Homes, said:
“Every new home delivered in Lambeth is a life transformed – a family moving out of temporary accommodation, a key worker finally able to live near their job, a young person able to stay in the community they love.
We face deep housing crisis, but we are acting with urgency, creativity and determination.
By resetting our approach, we have shown that progress is possible even in difficult times – and we will keep going until every resident has access to the safe, secure and affordable home they deserve.”
Progress so far includes:
- Finding a development partner to create 500 new houses, half of which will be affordable, on six council-owned properties in the New houses Hexagon
- developing two significant town center renovation projects in Brixton that will produce over 600 new houses, including two mixed-use complexes with 40% and 56% affordable housing. Construction is anticipated to begin in early 2026 and 2027.
- Restarted estate renewal initiatives to bring forward more homes to the borough and a reinforced pipeline of development opportunities around the borough such the Leigham Court Road development
- Completion of 108 new dwellings, including 96 social rents
These milestones imply Lambeth is moving at pace to establish sustainable, long-term solutions for residents in need.
The program’s main focus is on social rent homes, which are the kind of housing that best meets the needs of low-income families and provides stability.
Lambeth is committed to reversing the pattern of decades of falling national investment in social housing by giving affordability top priority in all new buildings.
The council has set a target of at least 600 affordable homes by 2030 on council- possessed land, as part of a bigger channel of about 2,000 new residences.
This fits into Lambeth’s larger goal of supporting the construction of 10,000 fresh houses over the coming ten years, as stated in the city’s Growth Plan.
How will the New Homes Programme be funded over the next five years?
The Lambeth New Homes Programme will be funded through a combination of council coffers, government subventions, and cooperation investments over the coming five times. Lambeth is committing significant capital backing to directly make and acquire new social and affordable homes on council- possessed land.
The programme will work finances from public enterprise like the Affordable Homes Programme and Levelling Up Fund to boost capacity and reduce borrowing requirements.
Lambeth is laboriously earning development mates toco-invest in large- scale systems similar as New Homes 6, which has a £250 million budget targeting 450 homes with a blend of affordable rent and participating power. Planning gain payments from private inventors within the city will condense backing by securing affordable casing provision linked to new request developments.