The Reach

Built

Kilian O'Sullivan

On what was once proposed as a site for a drive-thru McDonalds, The Reach delivers 66 high quality, affordable homes for residents, demonstrating how to successfully densify London’s outer suburbs.

NEW LONDON AWARDS 2020

Shortlisted in the ENVIRONMENTAL PRIZE and the HOUSING category

The first scheme to be delivered in the Mayor’s Abbey Wood, Plumstead and Thamesmead Housing Zone, creating 66 new affordable homes and kick-starts Peabody’s ambitious programme of regeneration in the area. Utilising a previously unused site, The Reach reinvigorates an existing local centre with a new sense of place. Its distinctive curved facade creates a new civic space, encouraging further regeneration and investment in the area. The building is orientated around a south facing communal garden, projecting balconies provide extensions to living spaces of the dual-aspect flats above

Project information

Status

Built

Borough

Greenwich

Size

5700 sq m

Estimated completion

October 2019

Location

Flat 205 Galingale Court, 12 Thames Reach, London SE28 0FQ, UK

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