It's fantastic to be shortlisted for an NLA Award for our work at the Carpenters Estate with the London Borough of Newham and Populo Living. The £1billion resident-led masterplan will restore the estate into a vibrant neighbourhood in the heart of Stratford. 

The proposals 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. 

The New London Awards recognise projects that seek to improve the quality and standards of new design in the capital. The winners will be announced at a ceremony on 21st November.