Wates and Mount Anvil Southwark housing: design and phasing notes for project teams
Reviewed by Joe Ashwell
First reported on The Construction Index
30 Second Briefing
Contracts signed by Southwark Council with Wates Residential and Mount Anvil will deliver at least 1,149 new homes across eight infill and estate sites in Peckham, Camberwell, Rotherhithe and Bermondsey. Wates will build a minimum of 343 homes on Gloucester Grove, Bells Gardens, Lindley Estate and Wyndham Road, all classed as affordable, including at least 131 new council units. Mount Anvil will deliver at least 786 homes at Seven Islands Leisure Centre, Red Lion Boys Club, Priter Road and Beormund School, with a minimum 50% affordable and at least 229 council homes.
Technical Brief
- Estate and leisure-centre locations imply complex decanting, temporary works and maintaining public access during phased construction.
- Developers explicitly reference “current market and financial challenges”, signalling tight viability constraints on build costs and phasing.
- Multi-site framework structure offers a template for other London boroughs aggregating infill schemes to achieve scale.
Our Take
Within our 511 Infrastructure stories, the London Borough of Southwark features frequently as a high-density, infill-led authority, so splitting delivery between Wates Residential and Mount Anvil across estates like Tustin and Gloucester Grove aligns with a pattern of multi-site, phased regeneration rather than single-plot schemes.
The minimum 50% affordable requirement on Mount Anvil’s 786 homes signals that Southwark Council is continuing to push tenure mix harder than many other inner London boroughs in our database, which can tighten viability margins and drive more standardised, modular or offsite construction approaches on these estates.
Delivering at least 360 new council homes across dispersed sites such as Bells Gardens Estate, Wyndham Road and Beormund School gives Southwark operational flexibility to decant and demolish older stock in stages, a sequencing approach that has reduced temporary rehousing pressure on comparable London estate renewal programmes in our coverage.
Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.
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