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This will help to find the most suitable property for you. Apply for a council house. For the latest update, click here. This splendour is just what you would expect to see in the Bourne Estate in Holborn , which boasts some of the finest public tenement housing of Edwardian London. Yet these blocks are not part of the , Grade II-listed estate but a recent addition built by Camden as part of its new generation of council housing.

Designed by architect Matthew Lloyd , the buildings exude a quality rarely found in developer-built flats — handsome proportions and crafted details mirroring the love and care that went into the surrounding estate, only brought up-to-date with bigger windows, higher ceilings and more generous spaces.

It might sound like an anomaly, but this group of 75 homes is one of many such developments now appearing across London, as local authorities have begun to build their own housing again.

They are mostly doing so for the first time in four decades, since Margaret Thatcher took away their powers to build. These were only returned in and, in the seven years since, London councils have built over 2, homes — compared to only 70 in the seven years before that. Given the continued lack of central government funding, councils have turned to a more entrepreneurial model, usually including a substantial number of flats for private sale to subsidise the council accommodation.

Hackney recently built a pair of David Chipperfield-designed towers , the sale of which helped pay for the regeneration of the Colville estate next door.