We’re consulting with customers living in Bellevue Mansions at Clapham Road in Stockwell and residents living in Lambeth Self Help Housing Association homes on Grantham Road on the future of their homes.
Along with damp, the need to replace windows and security of communal areas, the homes in Bellevue Mansions are expensive to heat, poorly laid out and some are overcrowded, so they're no longer suitable for the people living in them.
Lambeth has a housing crisis, with thousands of people on the council’s housing list. Our social purpose is to provide affordable homes that are safe, decent and energy efficient. Regenerating the Bellevue Mansions site means we could build hundreds more, desperately-needed affordable homes in the borough, in a well-connected, sustainable community
We want to work with residents to explore the options for regeneration, so we can provide local people with homes that meet their needs in the long term.
We’re looking at two main regeneration options.
- To retain and retrofit Bellevue Mansions, including completely redesigning the building’s interior. We would retain all or some of the building and build additional homes on the rest of the site. We’d also create new open spaces and keep community amenities, including the children’s nursery.
- To demolish Bellevue Mansions and build hundreds of affordable homes across the site. We’d also create new open spaces and keep community amenities, including the children’s nursery.
In both cases, we would have to demolish some of the other buildings on site, including the Lambeth Self Help homes next door to Bellevue Mansions.
We’re still looking at all the options – while considering residents’ and the local community’s priorities – and nothing will happen until we’ve asked people living in Bellevue Mansions, and those living in the Lambeth Self Help homes, to vote in a ballot.
If there is a vote in favour of regeneration, then we’ll start designing our plans in detail and submit a planning application. If there’s a no vote, then we’ll continue to maintain Bellevue Mansions as part of our ongoing responsibilities as a landlord.
