Redevelopment of Hackney youth club gets go ahead

Countryside Properties together with historic youth club, the Crown and Manor Club in Wiltshire Row, Hackney have been granted planning permission for an innovative regeneration project to redevelop the youth club.

The planning permission enables Countryside to develop 84 new homes, 75 of which are for private sale, eight are for shared equity sale and one will become an apartment for the Club's manager.

Importantly the permission allows the redevelopment of the Club's facilities to Sport England specification, improvements that would not have been possible without the redevelopment plans. The Club, which helps young people develop both mentally and physically through a range of educational and sporting activities, will be transformed to provide a multi-purpose indoor sports area, library and classroom facilities.

The planning permission follows extensive consultation with local residents and club members over many months. Robert Barton, Associate Director of Development for Countryside Properties comments: "We are looking forward to building a high quality scheme that will help regenerate the area and provide a new local centre for sporting and educational achievement. Countryside Properties is determined to provide a facility that would substantially benefit the community both with its new, improved youth club facilities and much-needed housing."

Rupert Hill of the Crown and Manor Club comments: "The Crown and Manor Club is an integral part of the local community in Hackney, which we are sure will benefit enormously from this redevelopment and the provision of new club facilities. We are delighted to have secured a great future for our club which will help us to build on our century of history and we anticipate that the new facilities will help us to provide another badly needed facility in an area of considerable deprivation."

The club was advised by Savills while CGMs advised Countryside Properties.