Densifying London's estates could help ease housing crisis

摘要

Increasing the density of the capital's housing estates could provide an extra 8,000 homes a year, according to new research. The Centre for London's latest report, Another Storey: The Real Potential for Estate Densification, looked at large housing estates in four London boroughs: Barking & Dagenham, Hounslow, Lewisham and Waltham Forest. It found that increasing the density of large estates to the 'urban' level of 145 dwellings per hectare (dpha) could result in a 50% uplift in housing estate capacity in three of the four boroughs.