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Housing academic inspects £40m project
15.03.2007
In the same week that housing academic Professor Anne Power of the London School of Economics launched her latest book co-authored with John Houghton, "Jigsaw Cities: Big Places, Small Spaces (CASE Studies on Poverty, Place & Policy): Big Places, Small Spaces (CASE Studies on Poverty, Place & Policy) (Paperback)," she was the latest VIP to see Southern Housing Group’s (SHG) £40 million redevelopment of Market Estate being carried out in Islington by Higgins Construction PLC on Tuesday 13 March.
Professor Power is a resident of the London borough who took part in the BBC Radio 4 two-part programme "Knocking Down the Past," broadcast last year that featured the Market Estate.
Exactly 359 new homes are being developed in total on the site of the 45-year-old Market Estate for both affordable shared-ownership and rent.
The housing is designed by HTA Architects to integrate 10 retail units based upon a masterplan by Watkins Gray International, following staged demolitions around a neighbouring park’s elaborate 47m-high listed Victorian clock tower.
The project team involves Tully De’Ath (structural & civil engineers), ECC as mechanical engineers and Whitelaw Turkington as landscape architects.
Seen left-to-right in the photo taken by Higgins’ senior site manager Rakesh Makanji are Market Estate resident and foundation board member David Kelly with Dale Meredith (SHG development director), professor Anne Power, Stephen Ross (SHG project director) and Mark Collins (SHG development manager).
www.shgroup.org.uk www.lse.ac.uk www.lse.ac.uk/people/anne.power@lse.ac.uk www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/schedule/2006/11/27/day/ www.shgmarket.org.uk www.islington.gov.uk www.hta-arch.co.uk www.wgi.co.uk www.philippank.co.uk
Housing academic inspects £40m project
15.03.2007
In the same week that housing academic Professor Anne Power of the London School of Economics launched her latest book co-authored with John Houghton, "Jigsaw Cities: Big Places, Small Spaces (CASE Studies on Poverty, Place & Policy): Big Places, Small Spaces (CASE Studies on Poverty, Place & Policy) (Paperback)," she was the latest VIP to see Southern Housing Group’s (SHG) £40 million redevelopment of Market Estate being carried out in Islington by Higgins Construction PLC on Tuesday 13 March.
Professor Power is a resident of the London borough who took part in the BBC Radio 4 two-part programme "Knocking Down the Past," broadcast last year that featured the Market Estate.
Exactly 359 new homes are being developed in total on the site of the 45-year-old Market Estate for both affordable shared-ownership and rent.
The housing is designed by HTA Architects to integrate 10 retail units based upon a masterplan by Watkins Gray International, following staged demolitions around a neighbouring park’s elaborate 47m-high listed Victorian clock tower.
The project team involves Tully De’Ath (structural & civil engineers), ECC as mechanical engineers and Whitelaw Turkington as landscape architects.
Seen left-to-right in the photo taken by Higgins’ senior site manager Rakesh Makanji are Market Estate resident and foundation board member David Kelly with Dale Meredith (SHG development director), professor Anne Power, Stephen Ross (SHG project director) and Mark Collins (SHG development manager).
www.shgroup.org.uk www.lse.ac.uk www.lse.ac.uk/people/anne.power@lse.ac.uk www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/schedule/2006/11/27/day/ www.shgmarket.org.uk www.islington.gov.uk www.hta-arch.co.uk www.wgi.co.uk www.philippank.co.uk
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