calfordseaden are continuing work on the Elephant and Castle Early Housing Sites and have recently seen the completion of two out of the five sites;  St George's Road, consisting of 15 affordable units, and New Kent Road with 52 mixed tenure and three commercial units.  Library Street, Townsend Street and the architecturally distinctive Brandon Street are due to complete in January 2012.

We were appointed by the RSL consortium of Wandle Housing Association, Guinness Partnership and L&Q Group to deliver their 'Package B' Elephant & Castle Early Housing Sites under a development agreement with Southwark Council. The emphasis was to deliver housing that highlighted the importance of architectural style above standard architecture associated with affordable housing.

Over the past three years each of the sites have presented various challenges, as would be expected of infill sites within a dense urban environment; to name but a few these included Rights of Light, Party Wall matters, build over and near to statutory services, compliance with Code 4 and 20% on-site renewable energy supply and provision of new community gardens, homezones and community play areas.

We look forward to bringing you further news in the New Year on the completion of Library Street, Townsend Street and Brandon Street.