• The TwelveTrees development includes a new 1,000 place school
• State of the art community centre set to open in summer 2025
Today Mayor Rokhsana Fiaz OBE attended an event to celebrate completion of phase one of a new housing development in West Ham called Twelvetrees Park.
The development is a joint project between Berkley Homes, Newham Council, the GLA, Homes England, and Peabody, and will, on full completion, deliver 3,800 homes, a new school, two new footbridges and a new West Ham station entrance. Plans are underway to submit a new application for more homes potentially taking the scheme to 4,600 homes.
Today’s ceremony celebrates the progress of phase one of the project, which will deliver over 1,000 affordable homes, with residents expected to move into 110 affordable homes by the end of this year.
Mayor Rokhsana Fiaz OBE said:
“Today marks a major milestone as part of a really important collaboration between the Council and valued partners, Berkley Homes, the GLA, Homes England and Peabody. Not only are we delivering homes for local residents that they can afford, but creating a new part of London in our borough, and tackling London’s housing crisis”.
“We have an ambitious house building programme, and I made a commitment in my manifesto to commence delivery of 1,500 genuinely affordable new homes for our residents by 2026. Today we are seeing the fruits of our hard work, but this is only the beginning.”
“As the country moves away from the austerity and stagnant growth of the last 15 years, we firmly believe there will be more opportunities to extend the number of social rented homes we can deliver, at the same time as maintaining the economic viability of the projects for ourselves and our partners.”
Two new footbridges and a new West Ham station entrance are scheduled to open later this year and will improve connections within the area.
The entire project is expected to create over 2,500 construction jobs, and 3,000 square metres of new retail and commercial space will bring over 300 jobs for local people.
The development will create over five hectares of public open space, including a new park.
