Welcome Aerial view of the existing Leven Road Gasworks site Introduction Our timetable Your feedback Leven Road Gasworks is a 20 acre site formerly We are currently consulting on our design We welcome your comments on the exhibition used for the production and storage of gas. proposals with the London Borough of Tower material. This feedback will inform design Hamlets, the Greater London Authority and development as we prepare to submit a St William has already met with local residents other stakeholders. This consultation will help planning application later this year. If you could and community groups to understand their inform the next stage of design development. complete a feedback form it would be greatly aspirations for the site. This feedback has appreciated. helped shape the proposals presented here We will be hosting further public consultation that aim to regenerate the site, bringing events later this year, with the aim of submitting Keep in touch together new and existing communities. a planning application for the project later this year. Please let us know if you would like to be added The new development will provide to our mailing list. opportunities for living, working, learning and Subject to receiving planning permission St spending time in an environment characterised William aims to start construction as soon as You can keep up to date with how the project by the site’s rich natural and industrial heritage. possible. A site of this size is likely to take 15 to is progressing and fi nd details of other 20 years to develop. consultation events on our website: Embracing these opportunities will deliver a vibrant new neighbourhood in east London, www.levenroadgasworks.co.uk offering new homes, new jobs, a riverside park and walk, a secondary school and improved pedestrian connections to transport links. July 2018 The careful balance between housing and commercial uses could turn the public perception of Southall from ‘a place to leave’ to ‘a place to live, work and stay.’ Our Team Amanda Balson, Placemaking Resource The 45 ha Southall Waterside site sits alongside the Great Western Railway between the Grand Union Canal and Southall Crossrail Station in the London Borough of Ealing. The site was formerly home to the Southall Gasworks which closed in 1973, leaving an underutilised and inaccessible site. The site is one of London’s most significant regeneration projects and will deliver the Mayor’s first Strategic Housing Zone. Building on the cultural legacy and the original Borough motto ‘For All’, JTP has conceived Southall Waterside as a dynamic urban quarter. The Vision for Southall Waterside was shaped through stakeholder workshops and community engagement, to overcome the inherent challenges of straddling the boundary between the boroughs of Ealing and Hillingdon, and ensure the development potential of this strategically important site is unlocked for London. Brewery Wharf by JTP for the Berkeley Group Project Delivery – Provision of 20 ha of public realm and parkland, 3,750 new homes (30% affordable) in a range of different sizes and tenures and 70,000 sq m of mixed uses – A masterplan delivering a sequence of eight interlinked character areas amongst three distinct hubs of activity, to provide interest and identity throughout the site - focused around ‘The Flow’, a remarkable public promenade and new leisure destination for London – 5.6 hectares of landscaped public squares and parkland enlivened by a curated meanwhile destination, with pop-up retail, community facilities and cultural events Bow River Village by JTP – An innovative ‘Staged Placemaking’ approach addresses the viability over the 25 year delivery – ensuring Southall Waterside functions successfully as a place at every stage – Dramatically enhanced urban connectivity through eight new access points, bus and cycle routes through the site, linking to the vibrant streets and residential neighbourhoods of Southall, Crossrail station, the underutilised Grand Union Canal and Minet Country Park, returning this isolated area of Southall back to the public – A hub of new social infrastructure including a primary school, health centre and community hub, as well as a commercial centre featuring workspace and a curated mix of retail, food and leisure experiences – Detailed planning approval achieved for Phase A which will Fulham Reach by JTP for the Berkeley Group Southall Waterside by JTP for the Berkeley Group deliver 618 apartments St William Client JTP Design team members St William is a joint venture between the St JamesJTP West specialises London in creating new places that are • JTP (masterplanning and architecture) Berkeley Group and National Grid. It was vibrant, valued and sustainable locations to live • Bradley Murphy Design (landscape design) formed in 2014 with the goal of transforming in and enjoy. former gasworks sites into new places for • WYG (town planning) people to live. They approach all projects through a process of • Iceni Transport (transport) ‘Collaborative Placemaking’, which puts people We want the places built by St William to be at the heart of the creative process: • Temple (environmental impact assessment) renowned for the quality of their landscape and • Patrick Parsons (structural and civil public open space which will be available to • Understanding engineering) the wider community. • Engaging • Max Fordham (mechanical and electrical) • Creating • ARC (townscape) • JLL (heritage) • Hodkinson (energy) • Iceni Engagement (public consultation) July 2018 Devons Road DLR Station 10 The Linc Centre The Site and Surroundings Community Centres Limehouse Cut River Lea 1. Poplar and Lansbury Spotlight (Poplar HARCA initiative) 20 Teviot Bangladeshi 2. Burcham Street Senior Citizens Cultural Community Club 8 Teviot Centre Men Only 3. Aberfeldy Neighbourhood Centre Furze Green 7 Community of and Aberfeldy Children’s Centre Refugees from Vietnam 4. Kineara 1 2 21 Poplar Baptist Church 2 Limehouse Cut 5. Idea Store, Chrisp Street View within the Leven Road Gasworks View of the Leven Road Gasworks site over the River Lea 6. Culloden Bangladeshi Parents’ 7. Community of Refugees from 11 River Lea 8. Teviot Centre (Poplar HARCA R - Urban Bow Creek Langdon Park Initiative) Blackwall Tunnel 6 9. The Cabin (Poplar HARCA Leven Road Site Initiative) Bartlett 10. The Linc Centre (Poplar HARCA Park 1 Initiative) 11. R – Urban 1 Spotlight Jolly’s 12. St Mattias Community Centre 3 4 Langdon Park Green DLR Station 13. Salvation Army Leven Road View west down Leven Road View of Leven Road Gasworks over Millennium Green 4 19 Saint Nicholas Church Off - Map Community 3 3 Aberfeldy Neighbourhood Centres 4 Kineara 2 Burcham Street Centre Centre 24 Tommy Flowers Poplar Union Aberfeldy Street 18 Aberfeldy Islamic 5 St Pauls Way & Bow Brew Café Chrisp Street 9 The Cabin Cultural Centre Market 6 Culloden Bangladeshi Parents’ Association Places of Worship 23 Callaghann’s 25 Festival Inn 5 6 16. All Saints Church East India Dock Road 17. Shah Jalal Mosque Poplar Aberfeldy Village 6. Artists’ impression of Leven Wharf 13 Salvation Army 18. Aberfeldy Islamic Cultural 5 Idea Store Centre The area immediately surrounding the Directly to the south of the site are terraces of two Leven Road Gasworks site is defi ned by and three storey housing in Oban Street, whilst 19. Saint Nicholas Church physical barriers including the River Lea, the the new Leven Wharf development forms the All Saints DLR Station 20. Teviot Bangladeshi Cultural Blackwall Tunnel Northern Approach (A12) western corner. Poplar Community Men Only and the East India Dock Road (A13) that 22 Manor Recreation The London Borough of Tower Hamlets has Arms Ground 21. Poplar Baptist Church signifi cantly segregate the area from residential 12 St. Mattias 16 All Saints neighbourhoods to the west, and commercial / identifi ed the Leven Road Gasworks as a Community Church light industrial areas to the north, east and south. strategic housing site which should also deliver: Centre & Bow 17 Shah Jalal Brew Café Pubs Mosque A short distance south and east from the site and • Strategic open space (1 hectare); Poplar East India DLR Station 22. Manor Arms still within the A12, A13 and River Lea triangle is • Secondary school; and the Aberfeldy Estate - a residential estate which 26 Hope and 23. Callaghann’s • Employment fl oorspace Anchor is subject to regeneration to provide 1,176 new 24.Tommy Flowers Pub homes, shops, a faith centre, community centre 25. Festival Inn and health facility. 26. Hope and Anchor Blackwall DLR Station Poplar DLR Station A mappingWestferry of DLR the Stationlocal social infrastructure July 2018 July 2018 Site History and Industrial Past Map Leven Road Gasworks, 1840 Aerial view Leven Road Gasworks, circa 1970’s Map Leven Road Gasworks, 1916 Aerial view Leven Road Gasworks, circa 1970’s Leven Road Gasworks, summer 2017 Leven Road Gasworks site lies adjacent to the Between May and September 1951, around River Lea. It was originally market gardens before 86,000 people visited the exhibition, including becoming home to the Poplar Gasworks in 1878. King George VI. Gasholders no. 1 and no. 2 were the first to Technological improvements in the storage be erected in 1878, with Gasholder no. 3 not of gas resulted in gasholders being made completing until 1946. redundant, providing the opportunity for the site to be redeveloped. The area was heavily bombed in the Blitz, and also suffered from zeppelin raids in the First World St William have retained three vertical and two War. Over a quarter of Poplar’s buildings were horizontal sections of Gasholder 1 so that it can seriously damaged or destroyed in the Second be refurbished and used in the public realm. The World War, which led to significant re-planning design of the buildings and street furniture will and re-building in the post-war period. also reference the industrial past of the site. The organisers of the 1951 Festival of Britain chose an area of Poplar, now known as the Lansbury Estate, to be a case study of the latest advances in town planning and architecture, and the first piece of planned urban renewal in the post war period.