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Taylor Wimpey to deliver 2,000 homes as part of massive Battersea regeneration

Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey has been revealed as the preferred bidder for a massive regeneration project in Battersea that will see a complete and utter revamp of some of the capital’s worst sink estates.

The £1bn project focuses on a 32-acre site at Winstanley and York Road which will create a new mixed-use neighbourhood on the site of the current council housing estates, delivering around 2,000 new homes along with new retail, leisure and commercial space.

As part of the scheme, council tenants and owner occupiers are being offered homes as part of the new project to put them at the heart of the new community, and have already been involved in the design and planning stage of the regeneration effort.

Under the preferred scheme, vast swathes of the York Road estate are set to be rebuilt while existing blocks are set to undergo significant refurbishment as part of the flagship scheme, which forms a key plank in the Governement’s strategy to redevelop sink estates across the UK.

According to Construction Enquirer, Taylor Wimpey fended off competition from big industry figures including Berkeley, balfour Beatty, Lendlease and C&C Properties UK & Pinnacle Group.