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Poplar Riverside Implementation Strategy
Client: London Thames Gateway Development Agency
Contract value: N/A
Completed: November 2008
We were appointed through competition in February 2008 for the Implementation and Delivery Strategy for Poplar Riverside, a strategically important area within the Lower Lea Valley.
This project is one of a number which builds on our research and interest in post industrial river related urban situations. Poplar Riverside is located within the Lower Lea Valley (LLV) in East London which is currently undergoing rapid change. Over the next 20 years the combined effect of the new Lea River Park and 2012 Olympic Legacy will transform the Valley from a declining industrial backland into a foreground ‘water city’ for East London.
We, as team leaders, have worked with a range of sub-consultants including transport, property, cost, environment, socio-economics and planning to address the site. The strategy has involved knitting into the surrounding areas proposing social and physical infrastructure projects, development proposals, funding mechanisms and design guidelines to promote successful long term regeneration of the area.
We have looked at both a wider area and core area which have been brought together into an integrated vision for Poplar Riverside. The wider area strategies look specifically at creating new connections within Poplar riverside and to surrounding areas; new local centres and social infrastructure to support new and existing communities. The core area proposals look at the transformation of industrial sites along the River Lea within 5 sub-sites to include mixed residential and employment uses and a new river edge park as part of the Lea River Park open space network. Through this work we have also been involved in a Green Book appraisal for one of the core areas.
The Strategy both highlights key constraints and opportunities which restrict the development of the core area and concludes that new links are essential to the development of Poplar Riverside as a whole and to its role within a connected valley. It also concludes with costed delivery strategy and an action plan for the LTGDC and its partner organizations.
Client: London Thames Gateway Development Agency
Contract value: N/A
Completed: November 2008
We were appointed through competition in February 2008 for the Implementation and Delivery Strategy for Poplar Riverside, a strategically important area within the Lower Lea Valley.
This project is one of a number which builds on our research and interest in post industrial river related urban situations. Poplar Riverside is located within the Lower Lea Valley (LLV) in East London which is currently undergoing rapid change. Over the next 20 years the combined effect of the new Lea River Park and 2012 Olympic Legacy will transform the Valley from a declining industrial backland into a foreground ‘water city’ for East London.
We, as team leaders, have worked with a range of sub-consultants including transport, property, cost, environment, socio-economics and planning to address the site. The strategy has involved knitting into the surrounding areas proposing social and physical infrastructure projects, development proposals, funding mechanisms and design guidelines to promote successful long term regeneration of the area.
We have looked at both a wider area and core area which have been brought together into an integrated vision for Poplar Riverside. The wider area strategies look specifically at creating new connections within Poplar riverside and to surrounding areas; new local centres and social infrastructure to support new and existing communities. The core area proposals look at the transformation of industrial sites along the River Lea within 5 sub-sites to include mixed residential and employment uses and a new river edge park as part of the Lea River Park open space network. Through this work we have also been involved in a Green Book appraisal for one of the core areas.
The Strategy both highlights key constraints and opportunities which restrict the development of the core area and concludes that new links are essential to the development of Poplar Riverside as a whole and to its role within a connected valley. It also concludes with costed delivery strategy and an action plan for the LTGDC and its partner organizations.
