The biggest single thing residents say in Lambeth, year after year, is that they want their kids and their grandkids to be able to afford to live here. Lambeth Labour is rising to the challenge and building new homes.
Lambeth Labour is pledging to build 4000 social and affordable homes in the borough by 2035. Labour will put you first by building more genuinely affordable homes for local families ensuring fewer children grow up in temporary accommodation, and extra care beds for those who need them, tackling the housing crisis head-on.
We have a plan to do this and a track record of delivering. Lambeth’s New Homes Programme targets around 2,300 new homes across the borough by 2030, with at least 600 of them affordable and built on land the council itself owns. “Affordable” here is not a marketing word, it means homes at social rent and other genuinely lower-cost tenures, prioritised for people on the council’s waiting list and for key workers.
The way it gets built is also different. In January 2026 the council signed a development agreement with Vistry Group, a major UK housebuilder, to deliver around 500 homes across six sites, half of them affordable. The first site is Denby Court in Kennington, where 141 new homes will be built with 50% set aside as affordable, with construction starting this year, subject to planning approval. A separate £250 million development partnership launched last year sets a minimum 35% affordable target across an even bigger pipeline of sites.
In an update published in March, the council confirmed that, despite a brutal national housing market, interest rates, build cost inflation, developers walking away from schemes elsewhere in London, it has kept delivering. New affordable homes have been let in the past 18 months. Families in temporary accommodation are being given a clearer route into permanent homes.
Why does this matter for Brixton specifically? Because some of the biggest sites in the pipeline sit in or just outside the ward, and because the families on Lambeth’s housing waiting list are disproportionately your neighbours. A pause in the programme, caused by a fragmented council, a change of direction, or six months of policy reset, would push starts back by years. Construction does not pause politely. Sites get re-priced. Builders move on.
This is, simply, the largest council-led housebuilding push in Lambeth’s modern history. It needs continuity to land.
Cllr Donatus Anyanwu, Labour candidate for Brixton, said: “Brixton families have told me, over and over, that they need somewhere genuinely affordable for their children to live. The 2,300-home programme, the Vistry partnership, the 141 homes at Denby Court, these are signed contracts and live sites, not promises. If we keep this council focused, those homes get built. If we don’t, they don’t. That’s the choice in front of Brixton on 7 May.”