The outline planning application promotes the ambitious transformation of the notorious Robin Hood Estate in Tower Hamlets.
The site has been earmarked as one of the six pilot pay now, buy later schemes, which allows developers to defer the cost of land until homes are sold.
- Up to 1,700 new homes including 700 for social rent and shared ownership.
- New replacement homes for council tenants and home owners living in the Robin Hood Gardens area;
- Transform public realm including improved community facilities, open space, new shops, a relocated mosque and funding for an expanded local school;
- Improved transport links to end the area’s isolation at the mouth of the Blackwall Tunnel
Blackwall Reach regeneration
This outline plan will be followed up shortly by a detailed application for phase one of the scheme.
Plans to develop the estate ran into controversy in 2010 as architects lobbied to save the 1970s estate, claiming it is a seminal building of its time.
Among the campaigners was Lord Rogers who said the estate designed by architects Alison and Peter Smithson should be saved.
During consultations about the replacement housing scheme, more than 75% of residents said they would like to see Robin Hood Gardens knocked down and replaced.