Central Stepney, Limehouse Fields

Client: SHADA

Role: Masterplanning, Architecture and Consultation

Entrusted with implementing the Central Stepney Single Regeneration Budget, this project forms three phases of the major urban regeneration of Central Stepney, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

A number of inter-war walk-up blocks of flats have been demolished. These were poorly planned, with insecure and unattractive communal areas and open spaces. They also turned their backs on the Regent’s Canal.

The new development follows a reinstated street pattern, with a new central square, and an attractive canal-side pedestrian walkway, facing over the extended Mile End Park. The 300 new houses and flats are low rise, mostly on two and three storeys, and planned in terraces and crescents to reintroduce a convincing urban townscape.

The dwellings are very energy efficient, with NHER ratings of 9.0 or 10.0. The whole scheme has been designed with good security in mind, according to the principles of Secured by Design.