The tiny Croydon flats smaller than a London Underground carriage you can buy for £260K

In the newest enormous tower close to East Croydon Station, you’ll discover flats smaller than a Tube carriage that you can now snap up.

Coming in at simply 38 sq. metres, the diminutive one-bedroom flats within the new Addiscombe Grove growth are fairly tiny!

And in keeping with our calculations, that is slightly below the 42 sq. metres of a carriage on a 2009 inventory Victoria line practice.

All of the 112 one-bedroom flats within the 21-storey constructing have an open plan kitchen and dwelling space to benefit from the area.

A CGI of one of many shared areas on the bottom ground of the brand new tower in Addiscombe Grove

And so new residents do not feel too cooped up they’re going to have entry to a few shared areas within the constructing together with gardens on the ninth and twenty first ground.

The flats price between £260k – £296k and are being offered by developer Pocket Living.

To qualify, patrons have to earn much less than £90,000 a 12 months and the flats can’t be rented out.

A spokesperson mentioned: “Pocket Living is a disruptor within the housebuilding sector which builds and sells inexpensive one mattress grant-free properties for first time patrons at 20 per cent beneath market worth.

A CGI of the outside of Addiscombe Grove

A CGI of the surface of Addiscombe Grove

“They are for individuals on average incomes who can not afford to buy a market priced dwelling however earn an excessive amount of for social housing.”

The flats have been constructed utilizing modular development the place items are constructed off web site and lifted into place.

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All the flats are initially offered with a 125 12 months lease and new residents must pay a service cost of between round £115 a 12 months in addition to floor lease of 0.1 per cent of the acquisition value.

All being effectively, the primary residents are anticipated to maneuver on this spring with full landscaping accomplished this summer time.

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