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Newsletter April 2025

Dear Residents,

Since the last newsletter, a lot has been happening in the background to push forward the regeneration of the estate. Countryside, the Council’s delivery partner for the scheme, have been progressing their detailed design work and preparing to begin enabling works on site over the summer. Residents will begin to see activity on the estate from May 2025 as Countryside erect hoardings around the phase 1 site (see indicative plan overleaf), to pave the way for demolition of the vacant adult social care building and then shortly after, the estate pram sheds.

Meet the Developer Event

The Council will be hosting two drop-in sessions at the end of April, which will be a chance for residents to come and meet the Countryside team and hear about their role in the scheme. Council staff from the Lettings department will also be there to give rehousing advice to Council Tenants. JLL surveyors will also be present to talk to any leaseholders who would like to explore selling their property back to the Council.

The event details are:

Saturday 26th April from 10am – 1pm

Wednesday 30th April from 4pm – 7pm

Venue: 260 Stepney Way (former social care building)

CPO Letters

We want to advise residents and leaseholders they will soon be receiving a legal pack of information about the Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO), which we expect to be delivered by the end of April. The pack is quite large as the Council is required by law to serve a number of key legal notices relating to the CPO process. Please do not be alarmed or worry as there are no immediate implications for residents or leaseholders. However, any residents or leaseholders who wish to formally make representation or object to the CPO will be able to do so during the statutory notice period. Project officers will also be available at the upcoming events to discuss any concerns.

Parking, pram sheds and hoarding

Many residents will remember from our discussions around the design of the new homes, that all parking and pram sheds will need to be removed on the estate, for the new homes to be built. In the coming weeks residents who rent a parking bay or shed will receive formal notice from the Council letting them know the timeline for terminating your rental agreement and taking back these parking spaces and sheds. This is necessary to allow for the erection of site hoarding around the estate in preparation for demolition of buildings within the first

phase of the scheme. See the image above for an indicative plan showing where the hoarding line (in blue) will likely be erected. Full details of the site plans will be available at the events being held on the estate at the end of April.

Waste Management

Once the hoarding goes up, there will be minor changes to the existing refuse collection route. This may impact you due to a change in location of the bin stores. Waste management colleagues will write to you nearer to the time with further information.

Other Information

For the latest scheme updates and information about the regeneration proposals, please visit the dedicated HAP webpage on https://talk.towerhamlets.gov.uk/hap or scan the QR code.

Council Officers

Sabaj Uddin – Sabaj.uddin@towerhamlets.gov.uk or 0207 364 2534 Imelda Burke – Imelda.Burke@towerhamlets.gov.uk or 07966023672

Your Independent Tenant & Leaseholder Advisor Mo Ali – M.ali@ppcr.org.uk or 07940 431503

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Update December 2024


During 2024, the scheme crossed a number of milestones. In March the process began to select a developer partner who would help finance and construct the scheme; in June a revised planning application incorporating the standalone community building and improved fire safety measures was approved by the Council’s Development Committee; in October the Mayor’s Cabinet authorised officers to request the use of Compulsory Purchase Powers from the Secretary of State; and in December the Developer Partner selection process was successfully completed.


New Preferred Developer Partner Appointed!

We are delighted to announce that Countryside (part of the Vistry Group) have been appointed as the council’s preferred developer partner. This is a huge milestone for the project and the culmination of a lot of work during 2024, including input from the members of the Residents’ Panel. The initial contract was signed on 17th December 2024. Enabling works and demolition of empty buildings is due to complete in 2025. 

As you will be aware, the scheme will be delivered across two phases, with Phase 1 now due to complete at the beginning of 2028 and the scheme in its entirety in early 2031. 

The council will be hosting some drop-in sessions with Countryside and the Project Team in the new year for residents to come along and meet the team, as well as hear more of what will happen in 2025 and beyond, and answer any questions you may have. We will write to you again in January with the date and further information.

Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) documents

Thank you to everyone who responded to the request for information packs issued in November in relation to the Council’s CPO process. Many of you will recall that we have always said a CPO would be a necessary part of the regeneration scheme (as with all such schemes in Tower Hamlets), but that this is only a precautionary measure, in the unlikely event that the council were unable to arrive at a voluntary negotiated settlement with any leaseholder within the estate. Voluntary negotiations will continue during 2025.

Selling Your Property

You can get a valuation of your home at any time. If you are a resident leaseholder, this does not oblige you to buy into the new scheme at this time, it will simply help inform your decisions. During 2025 the team will be working with Countryside to set out for leaseholders the process of committing to purchase a new Shared Equity home, ensuring maximum flexibility for leaseholders in the process, so no one is locked-in too soon. We have already written to tenants and resident leaseholders asking what their intentions are and whether they would like to remain on the estate or move away, but people's circumstances do change, so please get in touch if this is the case for your household. For now, please take advantage of having your home surveyed for free so that you are informed of what your property is currently worth. There is more information in the Rehousing Guides which can be found on the scheme webpage, including details of how you can obtain your own valuation, which the council will reimburse you for. If you would like your property surveyed by the Council, please contact Tim Surry at JLL on 07548 099 645 or email tim.surry@jll.com

Council Officers

Sabaj Uddin – Sabaj.uddin@towerhamlets.gov.uk  or 0207 364 2534

Imelda Burke – Imelda.Burke@towerhamlets.gov.uk or 07966023672

Your Independent Tenant & Leaseholder Advisor 

Mo Ali – Mali@ppcr.org.uk or 07940 431503

Find out more about this scheme

Why does the council need to build more homes?

Why Harriott, Apsley and Pattison (HAP) Houses?

Our promise to residents

Design principles for the new development

What regeneration will deliver

What we showed you in February & March 2024

What we showed you in August 2024

Newsletter April 2025

Dear Residents,

Since the last newsletter, a lot has been happening in the background to push forward the regeneration of the estate. Countryside, the Council’s delivery partner for the scheme, have been progressing their detailed design work and preparing to begin enabling works on site over the summer. Residents will begin to see activity on the estate from May 2025 as Countryside erect hoardings around the phase 1 site (see indicative plan overleaf), to pave the way for demolition of the vacant adult social care building and then shortly after, the estate pram sheds.

Meet the Developer Event

The Council will be hosting two drop-in sessions at the end of April, which will be a chance for residents to come and meet the Countryside team and hear about their role in the scheme. Council staff from the Lettings department will also be there to give rehousing advice to Council Tenants. JLL surveyors will also be present to talk to any leaseholders who would like to explore selling their property back to the Council.

The event details are:

Saturday 26th April from 10am – 1pm

Wednesday 30th April from 4pm – 7pm

Venue: 260 Stepney Way (former social care building)

CPO Letters

We want to advise residents and leaseholders they will soon be receiving a legal pack of information about the Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO), which we expect to be delivered by the end of April. The pack is quite large as the Council is required by law to serve a number of key legal notices relating to the CPO process. Please do not be alarmed or worry as there are no immediate implications for residents or leaseholders. However, any residents or leaseholders who wish to formally make representation or object to the CPO will be able to do so during the statutory notice period. Project officers will also be available at the upcoming events to discuss any concerns.

Parking, pram sheds and hoarding

Many residents will remember from our discussions around the design of the new homes, that all parking and pram sheds will need to be removed on the estate, for the new homes to be built. In the coming weeks residents who rent a parking bay or shed will receive formal notice from the Council letting them know the timeline for terminating your rental agreement and taking back these parking spaces and sheds. This is necessary to allow for the erection of site hoarding around the estate in preparation for demolition of buildings within the first

phase of the scheme. See the image above for an indicative plan showing where the hoarding line (in blue) will likely be erected. Full details of the site plans will be available at the events being held on the estate at the end of April.

Waste Management

Once the hoarding goes up, there will be minor changes to the existing refuse collection route. This may impact you due to a change in location of the bin stores. Waste management colleagues will write to you nearer to the time with further information.

Other Information

For the latest scheme updates and information about the regeneration proposals, please visit the dedicated HAP webpage on https://talk.towerhamlets.gov.uk/hap or scan the QR code.

Council Officers

Sabaj Uddin – Sabaj.uddin@towerhamlets.gov.uk or 0207 364 2534 Imelda Burke – Imelda.Burke@towerhamlets.gov.uk or 07966023672

Your Independent Tenant & Leaseholder Advisor Mo Ali – M.ali@ppcr.org.uk or 07940 431503

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Update December 2024


During 2024, the scheme crossed a number of milestones. In March the process began to select a developer partner who would help finance and construct the scheme; in June a revised planning application incorporating the standalone community building and improved fire safety measures was approved by the Council’s Development Committee; in October the Mayor’s Cabinet authorised officers to request the use of Compulsory Purchase Powers from the Secretary of State; and in December the Developer Partner selection process was successfully completed.


New Preferred Developer Partner Appointed!

We are delighted to announce that Countryside (part of the Vistry Group) have been appointed as the council’s preferred developer partner. This is a huge milestone for the project and the culmination of a lot of work during 2024, including input from the members of the Residents’ Panel. The initial contract was signed on 17th December 2024. Enabling works and demolition of empty buildings is due to complete in 2025. 

As you will be aware, the scheme will be delivered across two phases, with Phase 1 now due to complete at the beginning of 2028 and the scheme in its entirety in early 2031. 

The council will be hosting some drop-in sessions with Countryside and the Project Team in the new year for residents to come along and meet the team, as well as hear more of what will happen in 2025 and beyond, and answer any questions you may have. We will write to you again in January with the date and further information.

Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) documents

Thank you to everyone who responded to the request for information packs issued in November in relation to the Council’s CPO process. Many of you will recall that we have always said a CPO would be a necessary part of the regeneration scheme (as with all such schemes in Tower Hamlets), but that this is only a precautionary measure, in the unlikely event that the council were unable to arrive at a voluntary negotiated settlement with any leaseholder within the estate. Voluntary negotiations will continue during 2025.

Selling Your Property

You can get a valuation of your home at any time. If you are a resident leaseholder, this does not oblige you to buy into the new scheme at this time, it will simply help inform your decisions. During 2025 the team will be working with Countryside to set out for leaseholders the process of committing to purchase a new Shared Equity home, ensuring maximum flexibility for leaseholders in the process, so no one is locked-in too soon. We have already written to tenants and resident leaseholders asking what their intentions are and whether they would like to remain on the estate or move away, but people's circumstances do change, so please get in touch if this is the case for your household. For now, please take advantage of having your home surveyed for free so that you are informed of what your property is currently worth. There is more information in the Rehousing Guides which can be found on the scheme webpage, including details of how you can obtain your own valuation, which the council will reimburse you for. If you would like your property surveyed by the Council, please contact Tim Surry at JLL on 07548 099 645 or email tim.surry@jll.com

Council Officers

Sabaj Uddin – Sabaj.uddin@towerhamlets.gov.uk  or 0207 364 2534

Imelda Burke – Imelda.Burke@towerhamlets.gov.uk or 07966023672

Your Independent Tenant & Leaseholder Advisor 

Mo Ali – Mali@ppcr.org.uk or 07940 431503

Find out more about this scheme

Why does the council need to build more homes?

Why Harriott, Apsley and Pattison (HAP) Houses?

Our promise to residents

Design principles for the new development

What regeneration will deliver

What we showed you in February & March 2024

What we showed you in August 2024

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