The charity, which has served Bermondsey and North Southwark since 1541, says
'Our plan is to build ... 54 homes that will provide genuinely affordable housing to Southwark residents. They will provide independent sheltered living and be especially suitable for those with higher level care needs. We want all our residents to feel they can remain part of their neighbourhood in their later years by making our building welcoming to the wider community through various activities and beautiful public spaces. We have appointed Witherford Watson Mann architects, winner of the 2013 RIBA Stirling prize, to design what we feel will be a truly fitting building for north Southwark and its older residents.'
They are seeking the views of local residents here.
With its location on bus routes, close to the Blue, and just across the road from Age Concern's Healthy Living Centre, this is a wonderful site to use to provide low cost, high quality, housing for the older folks of the locality.
A piece of really good news for Bermondsey. Well done to the trustees of the United St Saviour's Charity for this imaginative reworking of an old idea.
The new almshouses will look quite a bit different (the two pictures, taken from their site, give an artist's impression) from the other ones owned by United St Saviour's - they were built in the eighteenth century, but the idea is the same.
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