海角视频

Canning Town Estates Regeneration

London, UK

Canning Town is set to be transformed through the coming decade, with a major regeneration project, commissioned and developed directly by the London Borough of Newham.

The vision is to transform three estates, delivering a wealth of new and integrated community facilities and infrastructure, alongside up to 1,750 new homes 鈥� of which at least 50% will be genuinely affordable.

The first 147 homes are already in construction on part of the site which is currently vacant, and will deliver 100% affordable accommodation.

Three estates in Canning Town are to be redeveloped as part of a major regeneration project.

The site will accommodate up to 1,750 homes, of which at least 50% will be genuinely affordable 鈥� social rented or equivalent.

A key focus will be on designing low carbon and climate resilient solutions, with designs guided by Passivhaus principles. 海角视频鈥檚 Nancy Wood is acting as the project鈥檚 Sustainability Champion.

One of the biggest challenges offered by the site is its location beside the busy A13 Newham Way trunk road, which divides the two sides of the redevelopment area.

Challenge

海角视频 has been engaged to provide a broad range of multidisciplinary expertise from structural engineering and building services engineering, to lighting and acoustics, with a scope to achieve outline planning permission for the masterplan and detailed planning for the first 147 homes.

We are working closely with lead consultant and architect and Jestico + Whiles together with the wider design team to develop the comprehensive masterplan for the site. Impactful placemaking is a key focus of the new, local authority developed scheme.

Another important focus is on designing low carbon and climate resilient solutions, particularly taking future flood risk into careful consideration across the development. The design fully considers flood risk and provides a high degree of resilience and safety, raising residential accommodation above any potential flood levels.

As well as the planned new homes, there are 322 existing homes across the site. The masterplan is seeking to retain and retrofit a significant number of these while still providing significant numbers of new homes. To explore the potential for this our structural team has been investigating the existing structures and how they could be efficiently retained and extended to provide high quality new homes which are both economically viable and environmentally better than full demolition and new construction.

The site is located beside the busy A13 Newham Way trunk road, which divides the two sides of the redevelopment area. The masterplan design works with this constraint and carefully considers place-making, acoustics and air quality in particular. The masterplan arrangement and massing has been developed to block and minimise road noise in the new development and achieve substantive air quality improvements.

Options are also being explored for substantial improvements in pedestrian and cycling connectivity between the different sides of the site, which will have benefits well beyond the project itself.

Canning Town is undergoing significant regeneration. Our multidisciplinary team is working closely with the community to design a masterplan for 1,750 new homes and public spaces for the London Borough of Newham. Image: Jestico + Whiles.

Solution

Our acoustics and air quality experts have played a critical role in guiding the design of the wider masterplan and individual building typologies. Larger apartment buildings on the edges of the site that border the road are oriented alongside the road to act as acoustic barriers for the rest of the development, to protect residents from road noise and pollution. Less sensitive spaces, such as plant rooms and stairwells, are strategically located on the rear road side of the properties, with residential spaces and bedrooms located at the front, facing away from the road.

Flood risk mitigation measures run throughout the design 鈥� from minimising ground floor residential accommodation to suitable drainage solutions.

The vision is to create homes that are highly sustainable and energy efficient by working to Passivhaus principles in the design. This includes early design aspects, such as the orientation of the homes, to maximise the use of passive measures for thermal comfort and ventilation. The designs minimise operational carbon emissions and comply with the new Part O building regulations on overheating. The first phase to be taken to construction 鈥� the 147 new homes on Vincent Street 鈥� is intended to achieve Passivhaus certification.

Our sustainability team has also been appointed to bring a placemaking scope and to guide the wellness strategy for the wider site, including assessing the possibility of WELL certification. We have designed a modern underground refuse system (URS), fully coordinated with elements such as the site鈥檚 transport strategy, landscaping and fire safety design.

With a portion of the site left undeveloped for almost 20 years, large areas have partly rewilded, evolving into an open mosaic landscape, which is ecologically valuable. Our ecology team supported the management of this land, particularly after the discovery of the rare plant Jersey Cudweed. The seeds are now being stored at Kew Gardens, to enable the plant to be reintroduced back to the site after construction work has been completed 鈥� maintaining the ecological value that has grown over the years.

Bats have also been found on the site and the development will protect them as well as achieving an overall net gain in biodiversity across the site. The wider design looks to balance the inclusion of solar PV arrays and plant on the roofs, to lower the operational carbon load and enable renewable energy generation, alongside the development of green roofs to help achieve this biodiversity net gain.

Value

海角视频鈥檚 broad multidisciplinary team is providing a wide set of services alongside the architects on this important project. The continuity of approach, and clear lines of communication and close collaboration between teams is one of the key value-adds we bring to the project.

The development will deliver exceptional low carbon, climate resilient, affordable new homes to host a sustainable new community on the site. There are excellent transport links for future residents, including the nearby bus station, Jubilee line, the DLR and鈥痶he new Elizabeth line station at Custom House.

This major project is set to transform the area aesthetically, socially and economically.