New Garden Quarter

Built

Nick Kane

New Garden Quarter is a family-focused neighbourhood featuring 471 mixed-tenure apartments, arranged around a major new London square, creating a vibrant community space.

New Garden Quarter is a new family-focused neighbourhood of 471 mixed-tenure apartments arranged around a major new London square.

The space measures more than 70m on each side, comparable in size and scale to London’s historic Victorian squares. Its scale is civic in character but the landscape itself has a dynamic nature with planting and landscape working in concert to boost biodiversity and provide room to play and relax.

This project is featured alongside our Public London: Activating the City insight study. The publication, exhibition and online project directory explore what constitutes a successful and democratic public realm today, the role of co‑creation and partnerships, and how we can ensure that places are fit‑for‑purpose in the long term.

Resilient London: confronting climate change

New Garden Quarter creates a mixed-use community on brownfield land with 471 mixed-tenure apartments arranged around a major new London square. Nearly half of the new homes are large family apartments. The scheme has excellent transport links, on-site energy generation, high-performance fabric, a SUDS strategy incorporating rain gardens, doorstep play, a neighbourhood nursery and extensive new green infrastructure. The design team worked within significant infrastructure constraints to create a new destination for families.

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Project information

Status

Built

Borough

Newham

Size

22000 sq m

Estimated completion

October 2019

Location

10 Forrester Way, London E15 1GJ, UK

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