DEVELOPER
Solon CHS
LOCATION
Sugar House Lane, London Borough of Newham, E15
STAGE
Completed 2002
SCALE
2 one bed units, 6 two bed units
TENURE
Assured shorthold tenancies
FUNDING
Acme Housing Association - managing agent of tenant artists - and funding of £10,000, Housing Corporation, provision of TSH funding of £144,980 for residential areas, Single Regeneration Budget of Stratford development Partnership funding of £126,000 for external areas and riverside access to adjacent river Lea
PARTNERS
Boss Group - owners of ex warehousing area, Solon CHS, Acme HA, Housing Corporation, London Borough of Newham - support for project funding
TARGET MARKET
Artists, assessed through Acme HA, managing agents
DEFINING FEATURES
Tenants required to be artists from local area, earn less than a maximum amount yet with capacity to pay for space and services. Artists were potentially homeless, as they were being decanted from nearby London Borough of Newham owned centre. Business planning and marketing advice available. Scheme full with zero turnover. Maximum stay being set at between 2 to 5 years. Previously derelict but attractive warehouse next to Lea river, on edge of industrial area with increasing arts development
'Newham's planning officer at the time was unhelpful - obstructions were subsequently overridden by committee members. The housing section was helpful and essential for our obtaining Housing Corporation funding,' says Mike Cox, development director
CONTACT
Mike Cox, Solon CHS