St Clement's is No. 1 in The Guardian's Top 10 Architecture & Design Events of 2017

Published on 16 January 2018

In December 2017, JTP's groundbreaking project St Clement's was named number 1 in The Guardian's Top 10 Architecture & Design Events of 2017, selected by architecture and design critic Oliver Wainwright.

1. St Clement’s, East London Community Land Trust

A decade in the making, London’s first community land trust (CLT) housing project opened this year, as part of a redevelopment of a former Victorian workhouse in Mile End.

The simple brick apartment blocks might not be architecturally groundbreaking, but the model of tenure certainly is: the house prices will be linked to local income in perpetuity, taking the homes out of the speculative property market and making them affordable to local people forever.

It’s a radical model that is fast gaining steam: there are now 225 CLT groups across the country with 4,500 homes in the pipeline.

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St Clement's,
London, UK

Reuse of Historic Building & Place
Stage: Completed