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TfL gets green light for 351 homes in north London
A council has given the go-ahead for the development of 351 homes next to a north London tube station.
Connected Living London (CLL), a long-term partnership between Transport for London (TfL) and Grainger, has been given the green light for the development next to Cockfosters Underground Station by Enfield Council.
The 351 new homes will all be for rent and 40% will be affordable tenures.
Designed by Hawkins\Brown, Mae Architects and JCLA Landscape Architects, the scheme will include four buildings and have a mixture of one, two and three-bedroom properties.
It will also include commercial space, public realm improvements and a new operational space for TfL.
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The homes have been designed to be car free, however some publicly accessible car parking and blue badge parking will be provided.
Ben Tate, a spokesperson for CLL and head of property development at TfL, said: “This scheme has been designed to provide not only the new and affordable homes that are urgently needed in the borough and across London, but also create new areas of open space and play space that can be enjoyed by the local community and residents alike and re-provide car parking facilities to support the local area.”
Adrian Day, on behalf of Better Streets for Enfield, said: “Reducing the amount of space devoted to car parking encourages active travel and use of public transport, which is vital for climate change goals, and building here means less green belt land is needed for housing.”
The announcement comes as TfL continues to grapple with reduced income from fares as the pandemic has led to more Londoners working from home.
As a result of the reduced income, the government has been forced to repeatedly bail out the transport body, which also owns a development company in order to deliver housing on the land it owns near stations.
London mayor Sadiq Khan has warned that major housing schemes across the capital are at risk of not going ahead due to the financial uncertainty.
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