Incamedia is working with Countryside Properties as ICT advisers on the lead developer bid for the London Wide Initiative - a major affordable and key-worker housing programme.

The LWI aims to deliver 15,000 key-worker homes within five years and a pilot phase, across the first 12 sites, is expected to deliver around 3,500 homes, 2,000 of which will be for key workers. The initiative will help bridge the gap in the supply of affordable homes required to meet the needs predicted by the GLA, which estimates that 31,900 new homes are needed each year, 50 per cent of which should be affordable (statistics from www.london.gov.uk).

The provision of affordable ICT services is an important aspect for this sector, where many of the residents are young, mobile and IT aware and others sit firmly on the wrong side of the digital divide.

The project team also includes Acton Housing Association, Hyde Housing Association, Metropolitan Housing Trust and Presentation Housing Association.