WOOLWICH: Georgian grade two listed building to be transformed into new homes
11:16am Tuesday 30th November 2010
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A GEORGIAN grade two listed building in Woolwich is set to get a new lease of life when it is transformed into 13 houses, eight flats and a maisonette.
Government House, in Woolwich New Road, was built around 1800 and is on the Heritage at Risk register.
It was used by the military from 1841 as the Deputy Adjutant General’s residence but was sold by the Ministry of Defence in 1937 remaining unused and severely vandalised.
A conversion scheme was approved by Greenwich Council’s area planning committee to provide four two-bedroom flats, four one-bedroom flats
and a two-bedroom maisonette.
Thirteen three-bedroom houses in two terraces will also be built on the grounds with more than a third of the new homes as affordable properties for rent or part-rent.
Greenwich Council’s cabinet member for regeneration, enterprise and skills, Councillor Denise Hyland, said, “Greenwich Council is committed to working with developers, landowners and housing
organisations to increase the supply of affordable homes available for local families.
“I am pleased this scheme will help towards that aim, while at the same time securing the future of a listed building which had suffered from vandalism and disrepair.”
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