Olympic Housing by Bernstock Penny;

Author:Bernstock, Penny;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2016-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Stratford Metropolitan Masterplan

In 2011 the London Borough of Newham published a Stratford Metropolitan Masterplan in an attempt to provide a more integrated and coherent framework for the area in response to a perception that a number of separate and relatively disjointed large-scale developments on an unprecedented scale were taking place in Stratford that needed to be more fully integrated into a plan and connected to existing communities to ensure access to new homes and employment opportunities. The plan included a development framework setting out the main direction for the area, a planning framework and an implementation framework

There are three main aspirations/themes that run through the plans including the creation of stable and balanced communities where people want to stay throughout their lives, Stratford as London’s third city after Westminster and the City offering business, education and the arts and an alternative, diverse and innovate economy that builds on local strengths and creates ladders of opportunity. There are four key projects that are discussed elsewhere in this book linked to Newham realising the Plan including Sugar House Lane, Carpenters Estate, Chobham Farm and Stratford Old Town (Southern Quadrant).

The Plan identifies a number of key problems such as high levels of deprivation, high population churn and a preference from local residents for more family housing in ‘mixed communities’. In recognition of the large number of tall towers comprising mainly one- and two-bedroom flats built along Stratford High Street there is a stipulation that further tall buildings will be limited and a greater number of family housing, including a mix of houses, mews houses and maisonettes, located in mixed communities. Indeed it is these mixed communities, comprising private and intermediate housing, that it is argued will enable the funding of affordable housing for rent with an indicative figure of 35 per cent affordable housing to be included in all phases of development and located in tenure blind neighbourhoods with Sugar House Lane and Chobham Farm identified as providing ‘aspirational housing’ (London Borough of Newham 2011a; London Borough of Newham 2011b). However, as we have seen in the case of Sugar House Lane and the Carpenters Estate there has been a significant deviation from the plan and this is similarly the case at Chobham Farm (see Chapter 5) which again highlight the gap between plan and outcome.

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