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Toynbee Hall

Caledonian Park, Holloway, Islington

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Location	Islington, London, United Kingdom
Introduction	Southern Housing Group’s £40 million complete redevelopment of the Market Estate in Islington will enable the first residents to move in 2007. Construction of the first 140 apartments are ahead of schedule, from exactly 359 new homes being developed in total for both affordable shared-ownership and rent on the site of the 45-year-old estate, within blocks rising to five storeys. The housing is designed by HTA Architects to integrate 10 retail units based upon a masterplan by Watkins Gray International, following staged demolitions around a neighbouring park’s elaborate 47m-high listed Victorian clock tower. The main contractor is Higgins Construction PLC The project team involves Tully De’Ath (structural & civil engineers), ECC as mechanical engineers, Whitelaw Turkington as landscape architects and the Philip Pank Partnership as both cost consultants and employers agent.

Location

Islington, London, United Kingdom

Introduction

Southern Housing Group’s £40 million complete redevelopment of the Market Estate in Islington will enable the first residents to move in 2007. Construction of the first 140 apartments are ahead of schedule, from exactly 359 new homes being developed in total for both affordable shared-ownership and rent on the site of the 45-year-old estate, within blocks rising to five storeys. The housing is designed by HTA Architects to integrate 10 retail units based upon a masterplan by Watkins Gray International, following staged demolitions around a neighbouring park’s elaborate 47m-high listed Victorian clock tower. The main contractor is Higgins Construction PLC The project team involves Tully De’Ath (structural & civil engineers), ECC as mechanical engineers, Whitelaw Turkington as landscape architects and the Philip Pank Partnership as both cost consultants and employers agent.