The design and build deal covers two blocks providing 76 affordable homes and associated landscaping works.<\/p>\n
Client Bonner Road LLP, linked to Clarion Housing Group\u2019s development arm Latimer, picked Rhatigan after a four-way tender race.<\/p>\n
A contract will be signed from 1 June with works running through to February 2031.<\/p>\n
The phase forms part of Latimer\u2019s wider plan for 274 homes on the former hospital site, with 50% affordable housing by habitable room.<\/p>\n
The first phase homes are understood to be focused on social rent provision, forming a key plank of the affordable housing offer.<\/p>\n The AHMM-designed masterplan will restore the Grade II-listed main hospital building, Sanitary Tower and South Wing, which are all on Historic England\u2019s Heritage at Risk Register.<\/p>\n Five new buildings of five to nine storeys will also be built across the site, alongside 125 sq m of community space.<\/p>\n The historic hospital grounds will be opened to the public for the first time in nearly a decade, including 1,140 sq m of open space, a new public square off St James\u2019 Avenue and restoration of the formal lawn.<\/p>\n Plans also protect the veteran Mulberry tree, reputed to be the oldest tree in the East End, in its original location.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n![\"-\"](\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/london-chest-hospital-2.webp\")
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