Silver Lining For Silvertown Site

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A major new planning application for the Silvertown site in the London Borough of Newham has been submitted following an extensive consultation process with local residents and businesses.

This is an historic part of London. This diverse neighbourhood will feature around 6,500 new homes with 50% affordable housing, alongside a vibrant new centre for the Royal Docks.

Submitted by The Silvertown Partnership, striking designs for the 50-acre site show how the iconic Millennium Mills building, left derelict and largely disused for around 40 years, will be fully restored and form the centrepiece of the new community.

Situated within London’s only Enterprise Zone, the London Plan identifies the site as one of the largest regeneration opportunities in the capital.   

The £3.5bn development will embrace its dockside location and over five acres of water will be central to the new neighbourhood, with canal walkways, a paddle board club and new bridges providing far greater access to the water and a closer connection with nature. 

The plans reveal ambitions to make Silvertown a hub of new industry, featuring over 780,000 square feet of work and creative spaces in the refurbished Millennium Mills buildings and surrounding employment quarter, equivalent to 13 times the size of St. Paul’s Cathedral.

The newly opened Custom House Elizabeth Line Station will also provide a convenient transport link for residents, workers and visitors just 15 minutes from central London and across the road from the ExCel exhibition complex. 

Planning permission

The Silvertown Partnership is seeking full planning permission for phase one of the proposed development, which will include 1,248 new homes, including 610 affordable homes, and 82,328sq.m of new commercial space. Outline permission is sought for the remainder of the site.

The Silvertown Partnership, which includes Lendlease, an international real estate and investment group, is working in conjunction with the Greater London Authority (GLA), Homes England and The Guinness Partnership (TGP).

Prior + Partners is the lead consultant for the hybrid planning application and masterplanner for the whole Silvertown site.

Architects working on various plots within the site include AHMM, dRMM, Pollard Thomas Edwards, Maccreanor Lavington, and Gort Scott with OMMX, with Arup on transport, AECOM on infrastructure and EIA and Energy Strategy, and SLA and Churchman Thornhill Finch on landscape. DP9 is the planning consultant.

Picture: Bold plans have been submitted to reawaken Silvertown in the London Borough of Newham.

Article written by Cathryn Ellis
22nd March 2023

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