JA Projects part of diverse team picked to revamp nine sites for Hackney Council

Merlin Fulcher announces Hackney Council has picked a diverse team to regenerate a series of council-owned sites in Dalston and Hackney Central, including Hackney Central station.

The team led by Adam Khan Architects and muf architecture/art also includes Apparata, Freehaus, JA Projects, Landolt + Brown and community engagement specialist Daisy Froud. It will carry out feasibility studies looking into the mixed-use redevelopment of nine plots, some of which are allocated for redevelopment in the council’s local plan.

The studies will look at ways to deliver new community facilities and commercial spaces which regenerate both town centres while also helping the council meet its aim to deliver 1,000 new council homes by 2026.

Hackney deputy mayor Guy Nicholson said: ‘Despite more than a decade of government-imposed austerity, we have made sure that the council is in a unique position having kept the ownership of publicly owned land in Dalston and Hackney Central town centres and not sold it all off.

‘This means that the council can work with the community to shape new development in the town centres to meet our collective needs.’

Nicholson added: ‘Regeneration and new development can generate anxiety and uncertainty. But by taking more control of what is built in the town centres and what any new development can deliver for our communities, we can ensure it puts local needs first. The brief to the architects is to make sure that these council-owned sites can deliver new affordable homes, greener town centres and attractive and accessible places for residents and businesses.’

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