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Affordable Housing: Construction

Asked by Blake StephensonConservativeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 4 July 2025UIN 62924

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to his Department’s press release Major investment partnership worth £24 billion to transform key growth sectors and deliver affordable housing across UK, published on 19 May 2025, if he will publish a full list of sites to be developed.

Answered by Sarah Jones

We can disclose the sites of the development as released by TCE on 19 May 2025:

  1. 60 acres above and around Euston Station in London, to deliver 4.3 million square foot of commercial space, 2,000 new homes.
  2. 60 acres in Silvertown in London, to deliver 1.3 million square foot of commercial, 6,300 new homes.
  3. 40 acres in Smithfield in Birmingham, to deliver 2 million square foot of commercial space, 3,400 new homes.
  4. Three land plots in Stratford Cross, London, to deliver 1.6 million square foot of commercial space.
  5. 250 acres of residential space in Thamesmead Waterfront, London, to deliver 11,000 new homes.
  6. 27 acres in High Road West in Haringey, London, to deliver 100,000 square foot commercial space, 2,800 new homes.

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