Introducing Braund Mansions
The RegenerationThe Regeneration of the Winstanley and York Road Estates is committed to delivering a new neighbourhood for both existing and new residents. The importance of celebrating the heritage of this area is shown through the names of new roads and buildings with a focus on inspirational Women of Battersea for our new buildings. The successful name was selected from a possible six options by the future residents of the first building.
The first building to be delivered in the new York Gardens is named for Elizabeth Braund the founder of Providence House Trust and the Shallowford Trust.
Elizabeth Braund made a huge impact on the lives of thousands of young people in Battersea. Beginning in the early 1960s with the founding of a youth club in a disused chapel (Providence Chapel) on Speke Road, which was demolished to allow for the construction of the new buildings of the current York Road Estate, Scholey House!
She opened Providence House on Falcon Road in 1970, which has served the needs of local families and young people for over fifty years. In 1976, she began her ‘lung for the city’ project by establishing a working farm (East Shallowford) on Dartmoor, which has broadened the horizons of countless young people from Wandsworth borough by providing residential farm experiences.
Driven by her Christian faith and an open-hearted approach to people, Elizabeth Braund was a true pioneer whose work was recognised by the Queen with an MBE in 2009. Elizabeth died in 2013 but her legacy lives through the continuing story of the Providence House and Shallowford Trusts.
The First New Road of York Gardens - Benfield Lane
Benfield Lane is the new road which runs from Wye Street by Penge House to York Road. It will be the part of the road which frames the future centered York Gardens park. Benfield was the name of a street of terraced housing which used to exist post war before the houses were demolished to make way for the York Gardens park as it was created as part of the Winstanley and York Road Estates as they are today.
The new building has three separate entrances but will be known as one name, the addresses will present as below.