Nema seeks views on nine-acre Jevanjee public housing complex
Thursday, June 4, 2020 0:01
By JAMES KARIUKI |
Affordable housing units on Park Road, Ngara in Nairobi.
FILE PHOTO | NMG
The environmental watchdog has called for submission of views on a project that will see 48-year-old colonial Jevanjee Estate bungalows demolished to pave the way for 1,800 new units on 15 high-rise blocks.
Regulatory filings show the 8.87-acre plot will host seven blocks with 65 percent or 1,170 of the social housing units with the remaining 35 percent or 630 units reserved for middle-income earners.
The report submitted to the National Environment Management Authority shows under the social housing proposal, 117 units will be one-bedroom, 585 two-bedroom and 468 three-bedroom units.
Other public-funded projects underway include the 1,588 housing units in Pangani, the just-completed Ngara’s Park Road estate and the planned 3,000 high-rise apartments on Nairobi’s Ngong Road on a 5.058-hectare parcel.
