A new riverside neighbourhood in Poplar, opening up a stretch of the Thames that has long been closed to the streets behind it.
Two minutes' walk from East India DLR, Blackwall Yard was a private yard and a concreted car park. The plans will bring 921 new homes and a range of ground-floor uses set around a new public square, with green routes down to the river.
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Cut into the riverbank is the Grade II-listed graving dock, a dry dock unused for centuries. Rather than build over it, the plans keep it and put it back to use as an outdoor swimming space, with an amphitheatre of planting stepping down to the water.
The Thames Path opens along this stretch for the first time in forty years. It runs directly past the site and loops into it, offering walkers and cyclists a green route off the riverfront and through the neighbourhood, with public seating framing views across the water to the O2.
A new pier carries an Uber Boat Thames Clippers riverbus station at Blackwall Yard: fast, frequent connections along the river for East London and beyond, with open water in every direction on the way.
A two-form entry state primary school sits within the neighbourhood, delivered with Tower Hamlets, with room for 420 children.
The community hub looks out over the graving dock: four storeys, with faith space, and shared low-carbon mobility on hand — somewhere to rent and store bikes and low-carbon vehicles, and a base for everyday neighbourhood life.
On the riverfront, new spaces to eat and drink, with views across the Thames to the docklands.
