MIx it up: This week, the foundations were finally laid at this long-delayed mixed-use development in Swiss Cottage, London.

Funded with £2.5m of Housing Corporation grant, it will result in Acton Housing Association and Ujima Housing Association delivering 42 affordable homes plus a leisure centre, a doctors’ surgery and 128 luxury apartments. It is being developed by Barratt Homes and Blenheim Bishop. The architect is Terry Farrell and Partners.

Acton said it expects the flats to be ready for habitation in 2005.