Innovative ideas are being used to overcome the housing shortage in Enfield.

Enfield Council is working in partnership with Neilcott Construction to build 13 homes on five disused garage sites in Padstow Road, Perrymead and Hedge Hill.

When completed they will be sold to private owners.

Income generated from the sale of the one, two and three bedroom homes will help pay for the construction of 15 council rented properties in Ordnance Road.

Two of the council rented homes will be fully adapted for wheelchair users.

Eleven of the properties will be three-bedroom, three-storey houses, with the remaining four one-bedroom detached bungalows.

Located on a new mews between Rotherfield Road and Beaconsfield Road 16 off-street parking spaces for residents are planned.

Enfield Council’s cabinet member for housing and housing regeneration, Cllr Ahmet Oykener, said: “In common with many other London boroughs we have a shortage of social housing, and this project will help us reduce the pressure on housing locally by both providing new build homes for home buyers, but also ultimately funding the construction of new social housing for those most in need of assistance.

“We are looking at a variety of innovative and effective ways of providing new homes for people in Enfield.

“These range from the huge £6 billion Meridian Water development, which will provide 10,000 new homes to our innovative estate renewal programme, and smaller but vitally important projects such as this one.

“Every one of these schemes helps us build strong communities and help our residents build a better life for them and their families, and I am delighted we are taking an innovative and creative approach to bringing new homes to Enfield.”