Farrells has submitted revised plans for the long-delayed Convoys Wharf mixed-use scheme in south-east London after being parachuted in last year to review the original project by Aedas.

At the time, the developer Hutchison Whampoa Property said Aedas would remain part of the wider team of consultants.

But this week Aedas’s managing director of its London office Mike Walters confirmed it has not had any role on the scheme since Farrells was drafted in last spring.

He said: “Right now, we’re not doing anything on it. We’ve worked with the client for a long, long time [and if it gets planning] we’re hopeful that we can continue to work on it.”

The scheme at Deptford has been mired in controversy after the Hong Kong developer was forced into an eleventh hour U-turn last year when it was warned by the local council the Aedas plan was likely to be rejected.

Aedas’s scheme was criticised by a number of groups including English Heritage and the Council for British Archaeology who branded it “monstrous”.

“We were reflecting the client’s wishes in terms of development of the site,” Walters said. “The client went away and had a rethink. They asked Farrells to prepare a new masterplan with the hope it would appease some of the concerns.”

The new masterplan, which was submitted at the end of last week, will include 3,500 new homes, three public parks, 12,000sq m of shops along with 10,000sq m of space for artistic and cultural use.

A 48 storey residential tower and a brace of 38-storey towers dominate the site which was once the Royal shipyard and first developed by Henry VIII to build vessels for the Royal Navy.

Farrells said its masterplan draws heavily on the site’s historic past with ancient slipways and dry docks marked in the landscaping and public realm.

A spokesman for the developer said: “The new masterplan gives real emphasis to the rich heritage and history of the area. We are confident this is the right masterplan for the site and that it should receive the necessary planning consent later this year.”

Farrells’ plan will also include a floating river park called Raleigh River Gardens – after Sir Walter Raleigh who is said to have laid down his cape for Elizabeth I when she visited the docks – connected to land by a series of jetties. The grade II listed Olympia warehouse, built in the 1840s, will be turned into a new cultural destination.

Terry Farrell said: “This part of Deptford has an incredible history, more so than any project I have worked on in my career and we feel we have a scheme that strikes the right balance between respecting and celebrating the cultural heritage and providing much needed new homes and jobs.”

But local lobby group Deptford Is, which campaigned against the Aedas proposals, said it still had reservations about what was being planned. “The main concern is the number of flats,” co-founder Willi Richards said. “It’s a solely maximum profit-led residential development. It’s too big.”

He added it was an improvement on the Aedas scheme which “completely ignored the historic part of the site” but Richards said the group was still concerned by the number of buildings planned between 10 and 16 storeys. “You’ve got this bulky base which is completely out of kilter with what’s around.”