Daventry House (Lisson Arches)

Westminster City Council appointed BREE Construction to deliver Daventry House at Lisson Arches, part of the council's long-running Church Street regeneration. The 28 million pound development provided 60 homes between 2020 and 2023, with FM Conway carrying out enabling works ahead of BREE's main building programme.

Designed by Mae Architects, the scheme set out to bring dignity and joy to later living, providing high-quality council housing for older residents in one of central London's most pressured boroughs. The building is distinguished by a white-brick, Roman-format facade specified by Mae, supplied through EH Smith.

Since completion, Daventry House has been celebrated across the architecture and housing sectors. It won Best Healthy Homes Development, Urban, at the Inside Housing Development Awards 2024, took a RIBA London Award in 2025, and was commended in the Mixed-use category at the New London Awards 2024. The scheme has also featured in detailed building studies and in wider commentary on the revival of London council housing.

For Westminster City Council, the development demonstrates how thoughtful design and careful delivery can answer real housing pressure, providing later-living homes that residents are proud to call their own while strengthening the Church Street neighbourhood.

Building 60 later-living homes within an established central London neighbourhood meant working on a tight, constrained site. The Lisson Arches location, woven into the Church Street regeneration, demanded careful logistics and close coordination with the council and neighbouring residents throughout the 2020 to 2023 construction period.

The development answers a pressing need for high-quality homes for older people in Westminster, a borough under acute housing pressure, and forms part of the council's wider response to that challenge through the Church Street programme.