Award-winning housing
November 2024
Affordable homes provider Pocket Living’s new-build development in Walthamstowe, London — Forest Road E17 — has won two industry awards … a Brick Award 2024 in the Medium Housing Development category, and Best First-time Buyer Home in this year’s Evening Standard New Homes Awards. Congratulations to the whole project team.
The recently completed Forest Road E17 project provides 90 affordable one-bedroom homes for local first-time buyers. The concrete frame building includes three, four and five-storey sections. Eight of the homes are adaptable for wheelchair users.
Photography : Jack Hobhouse
client : Pocket Living
architect : Gort Scott
structural and civil engineer : Whitby Wood
MEP engineer : XCO2
fire consultant : JGA
cost consultant : WT Partnership
landscape architect : B|D landscape architects
transport consultant : TPP