Forewards
Niall Bolger, Chief Executive, London Borough of Hounslow
The London Borough of Hounslow are committed to delivering high quality housing that our residents deserve. Our ambition is to lead the way in providing affordable homes of the highest- possible standards, ensuring that our towns and neighbourhoods have liveability at their heart. We believe this goes hand in hand with building vibrant, thriving communities.
As part of this commitment, we embarked on a mission to develop a unified vision of quality housing design in Hounslow. This involved undertaking a series of workshops with groups of key Hounslow stakeholders in order to identify what makes a quality home for Hounslow. The document before you is the result of this truly collaborative process. It takes a rounded view of housing design quality specific to Hounslow and it is the output of conversations with residents, officers, Councillors, and other key groups.
The vision put forward in this document will help us create an outstanding architectural legacy for Hounslow. It will help ensure that the homes we are building are of exemplary quality, designed to enrich the lives of residents for generations to come. To that end, I strongly encourage everyone involved in the process of housing delivery in Hounslow to utilise this document from scheme inception through to completion and use.
Cllr. Tom Bruce, Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Development
I am pleased to present Hounslow Council's Vision for quality housing design in the Borough.
In October of 2021, the London Borough of Hounslow joined three other partner organisations as part of the Greater London Authority’s Delivering Quality Homes pilot. The programme saw us undertaking a review of our housing delivery processes and setting out an action plan for improving the quality of homes we deliver as an organisation.
The Vision document before you is one of the key actions we have undertaken in our efforts to improve the quality of Hounslow homes and to help ensure that we are building a legacy of extraordinary places for generations to come.
It expands our Corporate Plan (2022-2026) commitment to create ‘A Liveable Hounslow where people can live in homes that work for them and in neighbourhoods where they can belong’ by setting out an ambitious but realistically deliverable quality framework that can be used to guide developments towards the high quality built outcomes we want.
It is written in a way that is accessible and user- friendly and can be picked up by anyone involved in the process of designing, developing or managing housing.
My hope is that everyone embarking on the journey of delivering housing in Hounslow can pick up this document and utilise it to guide their work towards the highest-possible quality outcome, resulting in outstanding homes for an outstanding Borough.
