Developers clamour to build homes at Meridian Water

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Enfield council has received more than a dozen expressions of interest from developers hoping to build hundreds of new homes as part of the next phase of its £6bn Meridian Water regeneration scheme. Nesil Caliskan, the north London council's leader, said a decision on which firm would be building 250 homes on phase two of the 20-year Meridian Water scheme would be made this October. All the homes being built in the second phase of the development will be affordable. Galliford Try's partnerships arm beat Redrow and housing associations L&Q and Peabody to the first phase of the work, a 750-home scheme drawn up by HTA Design and HawkinsBrown. Caliskan outlined the council's criteria for firms hoping to work on future phases of the project. She said: "If you're a developer who plans to sell overseas, if you're not prepared to offer at least 50% affordable homes, if you're not going to be flexible over the designs and if you've other ideas about what we want for ground-floor uses of these buildings, then we don't want to work with you."