Hammersmith & Fulham Council has begun handing over 132 new affordable homes in White City as part of its £150 million EdCity project with education charity Ark.
The homes are aimed primarily at local people, including those on the council’s housing waiting list and Home Buy register, with 15 reserved for teachers working in borough schools.
EdCity is a wider mixed-use development designed to support local communities through housing, education, training and employment. Alongside the homes, it will provide a new primary school, a youth centre, and an expanded adult learning and skills hub.
The project also includes a 100,000 sq ft office space intended to create up to 1,000 jobs, as well as a permanent base for Ark and other organisations.
Council leader Stephen Cowan said the new flats are for residents of Hammersmith & Fulham as the borough continues to build more affordable homes than anywhere else in the UK per square kilometre.
The first 24 homes on the site have already been occupied by local people from the housing waiting list. The scheme also includes 33 London Affordable Rent homes, 84 shared ownership homes and 15 intermediate rent homes.
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