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Home Group to ask for tenants’ backing on all major regeneration schemes

Home Group has announced it will introduce tenant ballots on all its major regeneration schemes, including those outside London.

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Homes on the Douglas Bader Park Estate in Barnet (picture: Getty)
Homes on the Douglas Bader Park Estate in Barnet (picture: Getty)
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The 55,000-home housing association, which owns homes across Britain, said new funding rules introduced last year by London mayor Sadiq Khan requiring resident votes on estate regeneration schemes involving demolition of social rented homes are “absolutely right”.

It comes after residents of a Home Group estate in north London voted strongly in favour of the site being demolished and redeveloped.

Home Group wants to knock down its 271 homes on the Douglas Bader Park Estate in Barnet and replace them with around 660 new builds.

Tenants voted 75.4% in favour of the proposals in a ballot with a 90.5% turnout.


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Mark Henderson, chief executive of Home Group, said: “This process introduced by the mayor, Sadiq Khan, where customers are the ones to decide on major regeneration schemes, is absolutely right.

“It’s a process that we are going to introduce across all our major regeneration schemes – not just those in London.”

The landlord said the new homes on the redeveloped Douglas Bader Park Estate, being delivered alongside Hill Partnerships, would match “like for like” the number of social and affordable rented homes “at the very least”.

There are currently 245 social rented homes and 26 affordable rented homes on the site. The other 389 new homes will be for sale.

“I think it’s widely agreed that Douglas Bader Park is in need of updating and is no longer meeting the needs and expectations of our customers. This is a community which deserves an estate that is fit for purpose in this modern day,” added Mr Henderson.

Home Group and Hill Partnerships will submit a planning application for the scheme to Barnet Council later this year.

On its website, the association said the homes on the estate were built by Pellings Property in the 1970s using the “severely outdated” construction method known as ‘Wimpey No-Fines’. The method was pioneered by the George Wimpey company after World War II to mass produce social housing, with ‘No Fines’ a reference to the type of concrete used.

Home Group also said the “quality of flats and homes on the estate has decreased significantly in recent years”.

The ballot was conducted by Electoral Reform Services.

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