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Category Archives: Housing

Milestone groundbreaking ceremony marks start of Eastfields regeneration

23 January 2024by Merton Web Team

Work to kick-start the biggest estate regeneration scheme in Merton’s history took place on Thursday, with a groundbreaking ceremony to start construction of Phase One of the Eastfields Estate regeneration […]

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Housing, Regeneration

New policy to increase assistance to help disabled people live more independently gets green light

20 July 2023by Merton Web Team

Councillors gave the go-ahead to new plans to enable disabled and vulnerable people in the borough to make adaptions to their homes and access additional services so they can live […]

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Health and social care, Housing

Building A Better Merton Together

19 April 2023by mertonzb

Residents, businesses, charities, community groups and a range of public services, including the police and the NHS, are being invited to work with the council on an ambitious set of […]

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Borough of Sport, Civic Pride, Clean streets, Cost of living, Health and social care, Housing, Leader of the council, Parks and green spaces, Planning, Public health, Regeneration, Traffic and Highways, Transport

Planning permission required to convert new shared rental properties in seven Merton wards

21 March 2023by Merton Web Team

Landlords converting a property of any size to rent out on multiple tenancies in seven areas of Merton could be required to seek planning permission. The new rules, which Cabinet […]

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Consultations, Housing, Planning

Building a Better Merton Together

20 March 2023by mertonzb

An ambitious plan to nurture civic pride, create a Borough of Sport and build a sustainable future for Merton has been drawn up by the council. At a meeting on […]

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Borough of Sport, Civic Pride, Housing, Leader of the council, Older people, Recycling and waste, Regeneration, Safer Merton, Sport and leisure, Transport

Council consults on poor housing and ASB in private rented sector

16 November 2022by Merton Web Team

Council proposals aim to increase the number of good landlords and significantly reduce the number of rogue landlords

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Housing

Merton sets ambitious new house building target

12 October 2022by Merton Web Team

Council had identified six sites across the borough for potential housing development that would allow for around 400 homes to be built

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Housing

Merton takes key step to bring forward genuinely affordable homes

21 September 2022by Merton Web Team

Four Council-owned sites have been earmarked for building more than 90 affordable homes on

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Housing, Leader of the council

Council secures £30,000 costs against developer 

31 January 2022by Merton Web Team

Merton brought to a close a long-running legal action in court

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Housing

Merton agrees five-year housing strategy

24 January 2022by Merton Web Team

Residents and interested  organisations were invited to join six weeks of consultation on the strategy, which was set out in July 2021

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Consultations, Future Merton, Housing
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