Urban Village

Mildmay Urban Village

The planning appeal for the Mildmay Urban Village scheme has been withdrawn by mutual consent between the Mildmay Urban Village Partners (Genesis Housing Group, Crisis UK and English Partnerships and Tower Hamlets Council).

After much careful consideration, the Partners have concluded that it will not be possible to deliver this ground-breaking development.

Please see our media centre for a joint statement with Tower Hamlets Council issued on 13 November 2007.

Crisis Supportive Housing Model

At the heart of Mildmay Urban Village scheme was the new Crisis supportive housing model, an approach inspired by the highly successful US experience of supportive housing. Our approach combines affordable housing for low income workers and formerly homeless people with client centred, holistic support and vocational services. These enable those with a long history of homeless to overcome the multiple problems they face and live more stable and productive lives within a mixed and supportive community.

Whilst we regret that we will not be able to realise our plans on the Mildmay site, we remain fully committed to the development of the model across the UK. There is already strong support for this new way of working and we plan to continue to work with interested authorities to identify new opportunities both in London and elsewhere in the coming months.

Thank-you to all who supported Urban Village

The proposed development was the result of a unique collaboration of individuals and organisations across the voluntary, local, commercial and financial sectors who believed the scheme would bring significant benefits to the local community and build on the excellent work already undertaken by the Church and Hospital.

We would like to thank all the parties that have been involved and those of you who generously supported our plans.