The Mayor has released the 4.7 hectare publicly owned site, which has been unused for the last ten years, as part of his drive to unlock development on public sector owned land. Under the terms of the deal, Barratt will deliver 589 new homes on the site, including 113 for affordable rent and 60 for shared ownership.
The scheme will also have 508 square metres of retail space, 298 sq m of community space and landscaped links through the site to Ladywell Fields and Catford Town Centre.
The site was transferred to the Greater London Authority last year as part of the devolution of powers from the London Development Agency to the Mayor under the Localism Act. Homes and Communities Agency predecessor English Partnerships had acquired the site from Network Rail and the National Greyhound Association in 2004.
“London’s unbeatable allure means unprecedented demand for housing, and making public land available for development has a big part to play in meeting this," Johnson said in a statement.
"The transformation of Catford Dogs, which for the last decade has been left empty and unused, will not only bring hundreds of new homes to the heart of London, but will feed into the wider regeneration of Catford Town Centre making it an even better place to live and injecting a healthy new dose of jobs and growth into one of the capital’s key opportunity areas,” he said.
“It is very good news for Catford that this site is finally to be developed," said Deputy Mayor of Lewisham Alan Smith. "The additional homes and jobs will be very welcome in this part of Lewisham, and the development will sit well alongside our own plans for the rebuilding and improvement of Catford Town Centre."
The Mayor said that work is expected to begin by early 2014 and to be complete by 2017.
