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Modern apartment buildings at the Kidbrooke Park Road social housing development in Greenwich, where 452 new homes were built.
Modern apartment buildings at the Kidbrooke Park Road social housing development in Greenwich, where 452 new homes were built. Stephen Craven, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Ministers borrow Kidbrooke's 452 social homes for a national launch

The Housing Secretary and the Mayor of London chose Kidbrooke Park Road, where every one of 452 new homes is social housing, as the backdrop for a £39bn national programme. The homes were already built; what follows for Greenwich is the open question.

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