London scheme Redrow walked away from gets council green light

By Jim Dunton2020-10-27T06:00:00

Residential blocks proposed for the Alton Estate at Roehampton

Source: Wandsworth Council

Wandsworth council approves Hawkins\Brown proposals for 1,100 new homes at Alton Estate

Members of Wandsworth council’s planning committee have approved their own authority’s masterplan to redevelop the landmark postwar 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”.

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