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INTERESTING BUILDINGS / LION GREEN ROAD · COULSDON, LONDON

The car park that became 157 homes.

Lion Green Road turned a London car park into 157 homes and won the Stirling Prize. Behind the brickwork is a more complicated story about land, affordable housing and public money.

By Ben · Fintok8 min read11 sources ↓
Brick apartment buildings and corner balconies frame a planted courtyard at Lion Green Road.A landscaped path between Lion Green Road’s angular apartment buildings.
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11 sources · Research checked October 17, 2026

Royal Institute of British Architects

Accessed October 17, 2026

Lion Green Road

Official award record, project team, housing count and landscape rationale.

Read October 17, 2026; undated live page explicitly identifies the 2026 Stirling winner.

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RUFF Architects

Accessed October 17, 2026

Lion Green Road

Delivery account, 2023 completion, heights, materials and site constraints.

Undated project page read October 17, 2026. Its 46-million value is not used as a verified total development cost. Rob Parrish credits for used JPEGs are supported by their original EXIF/IPTC/XMP metadata.

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Mary Duggan Architects

Accessed October 17, 2026

Lion Green Road

Design explanation and landscape collaboration with Planit.

The URL date is not treated as a completion date. Page credits photography to Lorenzo Zandri; no reuse license established.

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CField Construction

2022-04-28

Progress update on Lion Green Road

Construction-stage confirmation of dual-aspect homes and reported environmental features.

Features are not independent performance measurements; no energy-bill or quantified emissions-saving claim made.

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Croydon Council

2026-02-26

Statement of Accounts 2024/25

Published financial statements record the lease, debt reassignment, credit-risk adjustment, missed November 2025 repayment and recovery action.

Reporting period ended March 31, 2025; certification dated February 26, 2026. PDF page 7 still has an auditor-report placeholder. Note 6, page 44, discloses the missed November 30, 2025 repayment and recovery action; later outcome unverified. Notes 33 and 37 are on pages 77 and 82; group notes on pages 105–106. Do not call this version independently audited or calculate a property return.

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