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The Coin Street area lies behind the complex bank of the Thames in Central London. The strip of land – more than 5 hectares in all – had become run down and was ripe for redevelopment for several years. By the end of the 1980s two schemes were in contention. One was a very dense development of high-rise commercial offices.
The other was a much lower-scale proposal by a consortium of community organizations for social housing, light industry, shops, restaurants and public open space. Both schemes were granted planning permission. Most of the land was owned by the Greater London Council which came under a radical administration in 1982. The new Council favored the community scheme and set up Coin Street Community Builders – a ‘not-for-profit’ organization – to carry it out. In 1984 ownership of the site was transferred of theaters and concert halls on the south to the new organization and funding arranged for the development.
Progress was slow, but by the late 1990s Coin Street’s new owners had carried out several projects. These included a shopping area, a new public open space fronting on to the riverbank, and the conversion and rehabilitation of an industrial building to provide flats and a rooftop restaurant. The projects also included two new-built social housing developments. These schemes were low density and low scale – mostly only three-storey high. The modest scale of these schemes prompted criticism that they could not provide an appropriate model for urban housing and that many more people should have been accommodated in such a desirable location. The IrokoScheme can be seen as a response to such criticism.
Information
Location:
South Bank, London
Completion date:
2002
Developer:
Coin Street Community Builders
Architect:
Haworth Tomkins
Number of dwellings:
59
Dwelling mix:
8 bedroom/12 person house 1
5 bedroom/8 person houses 22
4 bedroom/6 person house-type maisonettes 12
2 bedroom/4 person upper maisonettes 16
2 bedroom/4 person flats 4
1 bedroom/2 person flats 4
Other provision:
Two retail units
Commercial underground car park
Landscaped communal garden
Previous use of site:
Temporary car park
Density:
74 dwellings per hectare
334 habitable rooms per hectare
Forms of tenure:
Social rented
Key targets/issues:
Providing social housing on a Central London site
Green features:
Super-insulation
Condensing boilers
Heat-recovery units
Roof-mounted solar hot water panels
Transport issues:
Good links to underground, rail and bus services
Residents’ parking restricted to on-street spaces (about 35 per cent)
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