The London Legacy Development Corporation is set to give its backing to a Hawkins Brown-designed housing development on the site of a former industrial estate in east London – 16 months after a higher-density version of the scheme failed to win the backing of a planning inspector at appeal.

The practice’s latest Marshgate Business Centre proposals, drawn up for developer Anthology, would deliver 245 new homes in five blocks of up to 12 storeys, as well as 420sq m of commercial space at the site, which is a stone’s throw from Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and fronts part of the Bow Back Rivers waterway network.

Squire & Partners originally designed proposals to redevelop Marshgate Business Centre. The first phase of its Stratford Mill scheme has now been built out. But Hawkins Brown was appointed to redesign the consented second phase of its scheme and submitted two proposals to LLDC in 2019: a 342-home version in four buildings of up to 18 storeys and a 16-storey variant with 276 new homes.

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