The Carpenters Estate Masterplan has been shortlisted in the 'Future Place' category of The Pineapples Awards. The £1billion resident-led masterplan for Populo Living will restore the estate into a vibrant neighbourhood in the heart of Stratford. 

The Pineapples Awards for place recognise built and future projects that make a positive impact on places and people. 

The proposals for the Carpenters Estate will deliver over 2000 high-quality and sustainable homes (with 50% being genuinely affordable), 10,000 sqm of commercial space, a new central neighbourhood park, improved connections and a wide range of community uses to meet residents wishes for a ‘real piece of London’. 

A new defined spatial structure across Carpenters Estate supports differing development scales and building typologies. This new structure captures existing historic routes, refurbished buildings and landscape structures in a new palimpsest creating a hierarchy of principle streets, mews, lanes and landscape courts. This new townscape plan is supported with a series of ‘marker’ buildings and significant changes in built scale to support the varying urban qualities required across the plan. Urban thresholds provide a clear transition between the masterplans differing public realm characters. 

Consultation with residents was integral to the development of the regeneration proposals for Carpenters. Working so closely with residents helped to build trust and confidence in emerging ideas and options and delivered a masterplan that both captures resident’s aspirations as well as reflecting the unique history and character of this part of London.  A resident’s ballot delivered more than 70% majority in favour of the proposals. 

Proctor & Matthews collaborated with Metropolitan Workshop on the masterplan design, working alongside the wider team including; Tibbalds / CampbellReith, LDA Design, make:good and XCO2. 

Winning projects will be announced and presented at The Pineapples awards party in April 2025.