Nye Bevan Estate- Future Development

Overview

Hackney Council is excited to announce a new housing programme aimed at building around 400 new homes across 14 locations, including Nye Bevan Estate garages. Seventy-five percent of these new homes will be council homes for social rent, prioritised for local residents with established housing needs. At Nye Bevan, we expect to build 9 new family-sized homes, and 100% of these homes will be for social rent. This initiative is part of our commitment to start building or support the construction of 1,000 new homes for social rent by 2026. Our goal is to address the housing shortage and provide high-quality, genuinely affordable homes to those in need.

Project Overview
Nye Bevan garages site has been identified as having the potential to accommodate new homes without the demolition of existing homes as well as wider improvements to the estate and neighbourhood.  

In summer 2022, we talked with local residents about proposals to replace the garages on Nye Bevan Estate with new homes. Since then, the Council’s Cabinet has given us the go-ahead to work with a design team and residents to develop plans for the new homes. In June 2024, the Council and architect team met with residents on site to hear your thoughts about what you’d like to see on the site, and your priorities for improvements to the local area.

We’ve appointed a design team and specialist consultants to develop proposals for the Nye Bevan Estate garages, including: 

Architects: Citizens Design Bureau
Landscape: Mark Lemanski
Cost Consultant: Bristow
Planning Consultant: HTA Planning
Multi Disciplinary Engineering Consultant: XCO2

Most of the design team have lived or worked in Hackney for many years. They have a broad mix of backgrounds and cultures and are excited by the opportunity to work with the community on these much-needed new homes and surrounding improvements.

Why your views matter

Hackney Council’s Housing Regeneration & Delivery team wants to hear your views on the early ideas for Blackwell Close garages that will inform the next stage of design development. 

This survey accompanies a public drop-in exhibition on Saturday 16 November 2024 from 10:00am - 1:30pm outside the Nye Bevan garages site, and an online consultation that will be open from 15 November until 06 December 2024. 

Please complete the following survey questions and share any additional ideas and opinions in the free text boxes provided.