Housing Associations And Registered Providers

Housing Development

The council works in partnership with housing associations and developers operating in Islington, to build affordable housing in the borough.

Despite Islington’s relatively small size and location, we have a very large housing development programme. Since 2004 we have built 1683 new affordable homes in the borough. These homes were delivered through a number of large-scale housing developments, including the Arsenal Stadium, which is the largest regeneration scheme in the UK.

We are expecting to build a further 900 new units by 2009. These will be located throughout Islington on a mixture of small and large scale sites.

Over the next five to ten years, Islington will benefit from a number of regeneration projects throughout the borough, including:

• Archway redevelopment
• Old Street Roundabout
• Mount Pleasant post office site

These projects will provide an excellent opportunity to regenerate areas of the borough, and increase the amount of private and affordable housing and commercial and employment space in Islington.

Affordable housing is developed through a mix of:

• planning policy (Section 106 agreements) where all residential developments with ten properties or more have to contain 50% affordable housing
• development of council disposal sites
• sites identified and developed by housing associations

Funding is secured through the Housing Corporation grants and housing association borrowing. The Housing Corporation is a Government organisation that funds and regulates housing associations.

Housing Associations

There are currently over forty associations operating in the borough managing approximately 15,000 homes.

Housing associations are not for profit companies. They are are governed by a committee or board of management that can include tenants representatives from local authorities and community groups, professional business people and politicians.

Some Housing Associations are founded to meet particular need groups, such as people with disabilities or ethnic minority communities.

For more information about Housing Associations operating in Islington, click on the Developing Housing Associations link under the main navigation list on the left side of this page.