Public Housing Design and Delivery-Ideas from the London Councils

The RIAI/Department of Housing, Local Government & Heritage’s Joint Housing Committee have organised this online event exploring the opportunities for public and private funding streams to deliver quality mixed tenure Housing.

This session will explore the London Borough of Hackney’s pro-active interventions in the market to provide mixed tenure housing; what are the mechanisms used to optimise the land-bank resource the council possesses and how can this and other factors contribute to delivering high quality design outcomes.

The session will include a presentation of some of the successful schemes which have been completed and some of which are under development.

Speaker

Keynote speaker at this event is Paul Karakusevic (Partner Karakusevic Carson Architects) and Clients from London Borough Councils.

About Paul Karakusevic

Paul Karakusevic founded Karakusevic Carson Architects to raise the design and quality of UK public housing. Over the past 20 years, he has worked with residents and local government to investigate ways of funding, improving and building homes and neighbourhoods which reflect the real needs of communities.

Paul is a Design Advisor to the HCA/GLA, The Mayor of London, Urban Design London and Design Council/CABE and lends his experience to audits, critiques and review panels of major UK initiatives and projects. In 2017, Paul co-authored the book ‘Social Housing – Definitions and Design Exemplars’, published by RIBA. Paul has lectured about public housing and the work of the practice at leading universities and institutions in the UK, Europe, America, Canada and Australia.

In 2021, ‘Public Housing Works’ will be published by Lund Humphries – the book charts the return of public housing delivery and presents the key projects and studio processes of Karakusevic Carson Architects.

Cover Image: Branch Place, Colville Estate – completed for Hackney Council in 2019. Image credit: Peter Landers