Haworth Tompkins has won consent for an industrial masterplan to guide the £300m transformation of an island in east London’s Royal Docks.

The industrial intensification project, five years in the making, was drawn up with industrial architect Ashton Smith for London & Regional and landowner the GLA and approved by Newham council last week.

The project will create 70,000sq m of employment space on Albert Island by co-locating and stacking different typologies and functions in a way that Haworth Tompkins co-founding director Graham Haworth said was not currently found in the UK.

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