
Ed Farnsworth
Executive Group Director, Finance at L&Q, the UK's largest housing association; qualified accountant with 20+ years in social housing finance
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Jun 23, 2026
Building the Future: Solving the UK Housing Crisis with L&Q Housing in Barking Riverside
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Andrea DeleyHOST
And how does that help the community and support the community's Well, Ed chairs the board here.

Ed FarnsworthGUEST
One of the, I suppose, relatively unique elements of this site is that this was a classic brownfield site.

Ed FarnsworthGUEST
So if you look at the photos of this site 10, 15 years ago, it was genuinely a brownfield.

Ed FarnsworthGUEST
There was a former power station here, but it had been left empty for a long time.

Ed FarnsworthGUEST
So we had to create a community from scratch because there was not really much of an existing community here.

Andrea DeleyHOST
And in terms of sort of delivering the future development growth, is there a role which you might not have mentioned or you might have touched on it just a minute ago about in terms of what the partnerships, funding innovation, how does, what role do they play?