Plans to bulldoze 12 garages for a wheelchair-friendly home have been given the go-ahead.

Greenwich’s planning board approved the application for land adjacent to 1-8 Rydons Close at Eltham, submitted by the authority itself, earlier this month.

It means plans will move forward on bulldozing the 12 landlocked garages to build the single storey, four-bedroom wheelchair accessible house.

Alongside the new home, a drop-off bay and off-street parking area for four vehicles will be constructed.

In approving the application, councillors added that the developers would be required to provide parking for residents during the construction of the home.

The council added another additional condition to provide a Car Parking Management Plan Reason, which would address how the four car

parking spaces to be provided on site would operate to maintain access for the Rydons Close residents, and their visitors.

In a planning statement, the authority states the new home will form part of their council-housing stock and would be provided at affordable social rent, the most subsidised form of rent.

The scheme is the latest part of the council’s plans to build homes for social rent across the borough, with 750 homes planned to be delivered by 2022.

In their planning statement, the authority says the project “presents an opportunity to provide much needed social housing on a site which currently holds underutilised parking”.