Olympic Legacy Supplementary Planning Guidance MAYOR OF LONDON 3.5 Hackney Wick and Fish Context This sub-area forms the western part of the OLSPG area and extends as Island far as Clapton, Homerton and Bow. It contains a wide variety of land uses. Clapton, Homerton and Bow are primarily residential areas whilst Hackney Wick and Fish Island retain a concentration of industrial activities and a growing cluster of artists and creative businesses. Vision The sub-area includes large areas of open space including Hackney Marshes, Mabley Green, South Mill Fields, Clapton Park and the eastern half of To create a vibrant new part of east London that builds on the area’s Victoria Park. After the Games these will be supplemented by the Queen unique heritage, open space and waterside character and Olympic Elizabeth Olympic Park, in turn linking to the wider open spaces of the Lee inheritance to create a diverse range of new employment and housing Valley Regional Park. The Olympic Handball Arena at Hackney Wick will opportunities. A new mixed use hub will be created around an improved provide a further leisure facility as a multi use arena for activities ranging Hackney Wick station and the MUA to provide new employment, retail, from international competition to community sports. community sport and housing offers for the area’s growing communities, The sub-area has many waterways and is crossed by the River Lea, Lee and the reuse or redevelopment of the IBC/MPC will support and Navigation and the Hertford Union Canal, whose towpaths provide develop the area’s cultural and creative industries. All new development pedestrian and cycle connections. The waterways create a risk of flooding will be of exemplar design quality and promote green enterprise district in parts of the area, although flood defences along the eastern bank of the objectives. New and improved bridges, connections and streets will River Lea will be improved for the Games and the water levels in the area can be created across the Lee Navigation and A12 to the Queen Elizabeth be managed by for example using infrastructure at Three Mills Lock. Olympic Park, the metropolitan centre at Stratford, and to existing communities in Homerton, Bow, Roman Road and Mile End. Substantial transport infrastructure runs through the sub-area, including the North London Line and major roads including the A12, A11, Homerton Road, Roman Road and Lea Bridge Road. Several of these are heavily trafficked, and together with the area’s waterways the effect is to create a series of significant barriers to movement. The Games will leave improved connections into the new Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and into Stratford, Scale of change but further improvements will be required to overcome the strategic barriers. GLA strategic modelling indicates that the Wick and Fish Island Sub-area A number of development sites will become available in Hackney Wick and as a whole has the potential to accommodate around 6,000 new homes Fish Island after the Games, and the Mayor of London and Hackney and and 160,000 sq.m of new and improved business floorspace in its main Tower Hamlets councils envisage the managed transition of industrial land areas of change. This would result in around 3,700 children and 6,400 for mixed use development. Reuse of the Broadcast and Press Centres could jobs. This form and scale of development indicates a need for eight form provide over 90,000 sq.m of business space with the potential to generate entry of primary school provision, seven form entry of secondary school thousands of new jobs. provision, eight GPs, additional dedicated community facilities and local The Games Energy Centre at Kings Yard will provide sustainable cooling, heat open spaces. New development in the sub-area should incorporate or and power, and has the capacity to support new development in Hackney contribute towards this provision. Wick and Fish Island. PAGE 83 Section 3.5 - Hackney Wick & Fish Island sub-area Hackney Marshes Velo Park A12 Homerton Mabley Green New High quality IBC/ Metropolitan-scale park creative industry Lea Navigation cluster providing MPC opportunities Homerton for local and global business within retained Strategic Industrial River Lea Location New mixed use neighbourhood including Hackney family housing Wick MUA Revitalised hub and station OVERGROUND Energy New waterside Hackney centre connection Wick Old New mixed use neighbourhood Ford New family with high levels focussed of family housing neighbourhood Victoria Park a e L r e South Park - iv R retains festival feel A12 Fish Island Olympic 3.5 Creative and Stadium cultural cluster C it Reconfigured y Stadium M i ll R iv e r Retained Strategic Industrial Land and Freight sites Roman Retained Strategic Area of change Road Industrial Land Hackney Wick/Fish Island District centre A12 Sub-area Boundary © Crown Copyright and database right 2012. Ordnance Survey 100032216 GLA 100032216 Survey Ordnance 2012. right database and Copyright Crown © Fig. 3.5.1 Hackney Wick/Fish Island context N 0 250m PAGE 84 Olympic Legacy Supplementary Planning Guidance MAYOR OF LONDON Development principles Provision of social infrastructure This form and scale of development indicates a need for five form of entry Homes and Communities primary school provision, five form entry secondary school provision, four Building neighbourhoods and communities GP whole time equivalents, additional dedicated community facilities and local open spaces. New development in the sub-area should incorporate or The sub-area provides a significant opportunity to introduce additional contribute towards this provision. employment and residential uses that respect and sensitively respond to the area’s historical buildings and character. Business & Employment Clusters of new well designed higher intensity commercial and residential The hub buildings should be focused around Hackney Wick station and potentially along parts of the Lee Navigation so as to optimise land use and take A new centre of activity will be created around Hackney Wick Station which advantage of higher public transport accessibility levels (PTALs). New will include a mix of uses including employment, residential, retail, culture development should be designed to complement and enhance the existing and leisure uses that build upon and complement the existing character of heritage and character of the area which provide a sense of place. the area. The north and middle of Fish Island have the most potential for land use New and emerging sectors change, primarily from the managed transition of currently protected The Hackney Wick and Fish Island sub-area will provide a range of new strategic industrial locations to residential and mixed use, and should provide and sustainable employment opportunities that contribute to a balanced an attractive and sustainable mix of creative, cultural and light industrial economy across the OLSPG area. Improvements to transport, connectivity premises for small and medium enterprises as well as new community and digital infrastructure will make the area a desirable location for new and facilities and new local open spaces, though care will need to be taken to emerging businesses in the creative and cultural sectors, and small and micro avoid amenity conflicts. businesses. After the Games, the retained or redeveloped IBC and MPC and The development platform at Old Ford presents an outstanding opportunity its communication infrastructure should be used to help develop a high to create a new family focused residential neighbourhood, which would quality media and creative cluster, potentially of sub-regional or regional benefit from excellent access to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Located scale as part of the east London Tech City initiative, which could provide at the junction of the Lee Navigation and the River Lea, the area benefits exhibition, studios, grow-on and incubation space for a range of creative from generous water frontages as well as being within a prime location and cultural businesses. Sites around the MUA also have the capacity to link next to the open spaces of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and close to into and support this initiative. Facilities suitable for small and medium size Hackney Wick hub. Together these features make it an ideal location for enterprises should also be provided, and new developments throughout the well-designed family housing which meet lifetime homes standards as well as sub-area should offer tailored training and employment opportunities for community infrastructure. local people. Opportunities to provide family housing exist alongside the Hertford Union Industrial Land Canal and the Lee Navigation to take advantage of the unique waterside Some of the areas within Fish Island mid and Fish Island north currently environments this sub-area provides. These opportunities should be designated as strategic industrial locations have the potential for de- developed and incorporated into local masterplans and ensure easy and safe designation to maximise the opportunities and benefits the Games’ legacy access to the existing and new open spaces and community facilities. will bring, as stated in emerging and adopted local development plan The OPLC has submitted legacy proposals for the Olympic Park which documents. Tower Hamlets council and the Mayor are working together include housing development to the south and east of the IBC/MPC within to agree where the boundary of the retained SIL in the south of Fish the adjoining Olympic Park sub-area.