ISHA develops new homes for affordable housing in the London Boroughs of Hackney, Islington and Waltham Forest. The majority of our new homes are for affordable rent but we also have a programme of shared ownership housing and intermediate , a bellow market rented housing.
Information on forthcoming new homes for sale on shared ownership basis will be updated regularly on our shared ownership page.
ISHA is the lead Association for the North River Alliance (NRA). The NRA is a a group of 9 community based Housing Associations who work together to obtain funding for new homes. The developing associations are Christian Action Housing Association; Gateway Housing Association and Tower Hamlets Community Housing;
Upcoming Development Projects
1-20 Mildmay Avenue, N1
This large site close to Newington Green in Islington is being developed by ISHA and Lovells working in partnership.
The site had been occupied by underused light industrial units some of which had been vacant for some time.
This prestigious, new development will comprise of 136 new homes, 31 of these will be for affordable rent and 14 for shared ownership.
The share ownership properties are predominantly one and two bedroom flats thus ensuring that they are affordable for the local community. The 31 affordable rented flats include 3 three bedroom wheelchair accessible homes.
Mildmay Avenue will incorporate environmentally-friendly features including a biomass boiler which will deliver 10 per cent of its energy requirements. A number of the properties will also have green or brown roofs.
This striking development on a prominent site overlooking St Thomas’s Square takes the form of an eight storey elliptically shaped building at the apex of a triangular site wholly owned by ISHA. In addition, a three storey terrace of three and four bedroom family houses runs along Loddiges Road. The new buildings replace two low-rise blocks of outdated bedsitters and one bedroom flats.
This development will complete the remodelling of a large triangular site which already contains three blocks of social housing of varying ages and includes the recently completed two storey terrace and three storey block along Lyme Grove - Protea Place and Aster Place.
Recent Development Projects
This scheme for 3 X 1B flats is now on-site at the northern edge of Canonbury Court, an ex Islington estate, now owned by ISHA. A single-storey building, last used as an archive store by ISHA, was previously on the site.
The new ground floor flat will have a small garden while the other two flats have balconies. In addition, an improved refuse store will be relocated to the rear of the new development.
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ISHA has fourteen Section 106 homes within this significant development of thirty flats only 800 metres from Kings Cross.
The commercial units occupy both the ground floor and basement and are retained by the developer, Noble House Properties Ltd. Each of the affordable homes has direct access to a roof terrace at first floor level for their sole use and the part buy part rent homes, each with a balcony, are located on the second floor. The development includes the installation of a Biomass boiler which will provide a proportion of the heating and hot water for residents.
ISHA, in partnership with Genesis Housing Group, recently completed this scheme on a site previously occupied by a TA Depot.
The scheme was designed as two blocks; Block A containing 26 units for affordable rent and Block B with 91 units mainly for sale on a part buy part rent basis. In addition to the residential accommodation the development includes one commercial unit and an underground car park. As the S106 partner, ISHA has 20 units within the overall scheme.
ISHA, as Section106 partner, has 24 of the 82 homes on the northwest corner of the redeveloped RosemarySchool site on Prebend Street.
This scheme, in the heart of Islington and only 300 metres from Essex Road station, follows the boundaries of the triangular site with a mainly four storey continuous block only broken by the entrances to two courtyards off Basire Street and Coleman Fields.
The buildings, with their sustainable timber cladding, make a valuable contribution to the local street scene.
This former Texaco garage had been vacant and a local eye-sore for several years before ISHA purchased it in December 2005. Special emphasis has been paid to the sustainable aspects of the development by the provision of eight wind turbines on the roof to provide lighting and power in the common areas.
ISHA, in partnership with developers Eco Developments Limited, recently completed this scheme in Elthorne Road, Islington. Kinver House is composed of one block for private sale and one for affordable ret/shared ownership. ISHA’s block contains thirty-one units - twenty-six for affordable rent and five for sale on a shared ownership basis.
This is a row of 14 large family sized, semi detached houses with parking and private gardens which were purchased from the developer when already on site. The houses were partially remodelled to meet our requirements and to maximise the number of people who could be housed.
They are situated in a residential area close to Chingford village centre and the railway station. Six properties have solar hot water heaters.
On completion four of the houses were being transferred to our BME partner, North London Muslim Housing Association.
26-30 SOUTHGATE ROAD, N1
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ISHA purchased a derelict bakery with planning permission for an eight-storey building containing 34 units. The new development on the ground floor has commercial use and one large wheelchair flat for affordable rent. The upper floors consist of thirty-three low cost home ownership flats. Contact our agents Stagnell Fox on 08451 301 422 for details.
This development is located on the site of a former warehouse purchased by ISHA in March 2006. It consists of 21 one- and two-bed flats for affordable rent, including two wheelchair accessible homes. Works were started by ISHA’s NRA Framework Partners Kind & company immediately after purchase, and completed in early 2008. The properties benefit from solar-heated hot water and off-street parking.
ISHA acquired the four-storey derelict block of workshops at the corner of Well Street and Shore Road in 2005. Revised planning permission was granted in February 2006 for a six-storey building containing a commercial unit and 47 homes for affordable rent, intermediate rent and part buy part rent.
CITY ROAD BASIN, GRAHAM STREET, N1
This scheme provides 21 affordable rented flats under the Section 106 Agreement for the City Road Basin redevelopment conceived and designed by Pollard Thomas & Edwards Architects.
The scheme was completed in June 2007 and contained affordable rented flats and maisonettes within a self-contained block and the proposed unit mix is as follows:
This redevelopment is part of London Borough of Islington's plan to regenerate the area of City Road Basin, which has good local facilities and is well served by public transport. It will include a variety of public and private uses and makes the Basin accessible to the public.
The private component of the development includes business, restaurant, retail, and leisure uses including a water space and a park.
ISHA was invited to develop a site situated between the North London Railway Line and St Jude and St Paul’s school. The school occupied split sites on either side of King Henry’s Walk with the infants’ and reception classes housed in the original Victorian school building attached to the church, and the juniors in a two-storey 1920’s block with a roof-top play area.
The 1920’s school block has been redeveloped to provide a new infant and junior school built to modern standards and retaining a similar area of play space, and three floors of flats above. Despite the affordable housing sitting above the school, the changes in level across the site enable the school and the housing to have totally separate access and care has been taken to minimise the degree of overlooking etc of the school.
During the development period, the junior school was relocated to temporary classrooms behind the nearby playground on King Henry’s Walk.
ISHA acquired a vacant garage block, south of Rozel Court, from Hackney in early 2004. It was redeveloped to create a scheme of 4 houses and a 4 storey block of flats, which were all sold on a shared ownership basis. The scheme was completed in March 2006 and the units proved popular with applicants.
The scheme was carried out under a partnering contract with Kind & Co. We also made improvements to the pedestrian access to Rozel Court, and undertook landscaping and partial demolition of the derelict boiler rooms in the neighbouring estate. These were funded by ISHA as part of the Section 106 requirement.
This 7 storey scheme was built on an unused car park and was completed in September 2004. It consists of 72 units and contains some of ISHA’s first low cost home ownership units (mix provided below).
The development has the added security of a video door-entry system and digital CCTV cameras in the underground car park. The car park is fitted with an electronic door entry system ensuring access for ISHA residents only.
Funding for the scheme was received from the Corporation of London as well as the Housing Corporation.
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A Section 106 payment of £300,000 was used to fund a variety of environmental improvements throughout the whole estate that were generated by the Tenants’ and Residents’ Association. They include lighting improvements, demolition of derelict pram-sheds and garages and a new landscaped parking area for the block to the north of Belvedere Court along Hertford Road. Completion took place in September 2004.
The second phase of this development, on a site purchased from Hackney Council, has two commercial units and seven parking spaces on the ground floor with 20 two-bedroom flats on the four floors above. Development started in December 2002 and it was handed over in September 2004.
Although located in Hackney, the scheme was funded by a Housing Corporation Grant supported by LB Islington which has most of the nomination rights.
The first phase was completed in 2000 and has a Methodist Chapel on the ground floor with eight rented flats on the three upper floors.
