Nightingale Estate

In 2017 a masterplan was agreed to complete the Nightingale regeneration, including:

• 400 new homes – on top of the 300 affordable homes already built
• a community centre
• 2 commercial units
• a cafe

This masterplan included:

• 52 council homes for social rent
• 72 council homes for shared ownership
• the remainder sold outright to help pay for them with little government funding for social housing

The Council has since secured additional funding to provide even more of the homes for social rent.

The social rent homes will be allocated directly to families already living on the Nightingale Estate whose existing homes don’t meet their needs, with the remaining going to those on the housing waiting list.

The shared ownership homes will be sold by our in-house sales team, Hackney Sales, in accordance with our sales and marketing principles.

These are prioritised for people living and working in Hackney who are unable to afford to buy a home outright but are unlikely to be prioritised for social housing.

As well as new homes, the regeneration will include improvements to public spaces across the estate, with new trees, lighting and facilities, as well as a new community centre, café and retail space.

Local residents spent more than 2 years contributing to the design of the new homes and public spaces, led by award-winning practice Karakusevic Carson Architects, together with Henley Halebrown Architects, Stephen Taylor Architects and Townshend Landscape Architects.

In November 2020 we wrote to all residents with an update on the regeneration plans including revised designs and an updated delivery programme. This will include starting work on the first 70 homes known as Block E, all of which will be for social rent in early 2022, alongside improvements to Olympus Green – the green space in the heart of the estate.

In advance of construction starting next year, we are working with users of the current community hall users to create a temporary community centre, which will be located between Muir Road and Seaton Point.

This will replace the existing community centre that will be removed to facilitate the new homes where work will start next year, and will include a hall for the lunch club and larger events, multi-purpose rooms kitchen facilities, outdoor space and a community garden.

To find out more about the initial proposals, which have not yet been finalised, see our video on this page.