Plans are being drawn up to tranform the rundown Carpenters Estate – a gateway site to the 2012 Olympic Park in Stratford, E15 – into an office, educational and housing quarter.
The estate, adjacent to Stratford railway station, includes three 22-storey housing blocks, 150 lower rise flats, industrial facilities and University of East London space.
Newham council, with design firm Urban Initiatives, has drawn up a number of proposals for the site, including replacing the three towers, which Newham owns, with housing and offices, but retaining the rest of the site.
A comprehensive redevelopment of the estate to create an extension of Stratford town centre, including a mixture of offices, education and/or community facilities alongside homes, is also being proposed.
Newham said that housing displaced from redevelopment of Carpenters would be supplemented with new family neighbourhoods in Stratford.
Plans include creating a “Chobham family neighbourhood” in Stratford new town and Leyton South, which will link with the Athletes’ Village via a new high street along Angel Lane and Leyton Road; and a “Sugar Pudding quarter”, which will combine Inter IKEA’s 1,400-home Sugar House Lane development with Pudding Mill, close to the Olympic Park.
Other proposals include a destination market at Stratford shopping centre and Stratford town hall being redeveloped as a hotel.
Newham planners will begin work on a draft development framework in October.
