Grosvenor unveils updated £500m housing scheme following rethink

By Hamish Champ2019-10-02T05:00:00

South-east London project now has more affordable housing after being rejected by planners in February

Developer Grosvenor has beefed up the number of affordable homes on a £500m build-to-rent housing scheme in Bermondsey, south-east London, in an attempt to get the project past the London mayor.

In February, Southwark council threw out the firm’s initial proposals to build 1,342 homes, of which only 27% would have been affordable, on the site of the old Peek Freans biscuit factory.

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