Acquiring the 3.18-acre site in January 2022, Hadley achieved unanimous planning approval for the redevelopment of IQL North in October 2024.
Following two years of detailed design work and extensive consultation with the community, the LLDC Planning Decisions Committee granted permission for the transformative mixed-use development on the eastern edge of Stratford's Olympic Park. The completed development will seek to provide a physical and economic link directly to the park from Stratford and beyond. To deliver this scheme, Hadley has worked alongside an award-winning team, partnering with Mecanoo, Delva, Buro Happold and Deloitte.
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Hadley undertook a comprehensive consultation and community engagement programme, including three rounds of consultation and extensive engagement with the community, LLDC, Newham and other stakeholder groups. IQL North will include a mix of housing types, with 672 new homes for Newham, including 172 Social Rent homes, and 909 Purpose Built Student Accommodation at 42.5% affordable. Through tenure-blind design and high-quality, publicly accessible space, the proposals promote a genuinely mixed community underpinned by inclusivity and integration.
Central to the proposals is creating a new home for the onsite meanwhile use, The LightHouse and Gardens, and the community that has evolved around it. The LightHouse will be re-provided in the completed development with an expanded offer to support social enterprise and charitable groups and a new home for the Good Growth Hub, which will facilitate job creation, creative training and linking local people to employment opportunities. Similarly, the ethos of the community garden will continue in the completed scheme, with growing spaces, biodiverse gardens and event space.
The plans are rooted in the aspiration to create a new destination for residents and visitors to the E20 area. Plans for the commercial provision include new food and beverage offerings, retail stores, a gym, flexible co-working space. Whilst the public realm will offer extensive urban greening, a new public square, performance space and formal and informal play space.
With a diverse programme of events and drop-in opportunities, The LightHouse and Gardens has offered an excellent opportunity to engage the community and discover what really matters to local people, resulting in development proposals that reflected the needs and aspirations of the community. Public consultation formally began in October 2022, displaying early principal concepts for the development to residents and the wider community via the virtual exhibition space and at The LightHouse.
To find out more about the approved plans, visit our virtual exhibition room and view the materials from our third round of public consultation.
