Jestico & Whiles has been appointed to create an estate-regeneration masterplan for part of Canning Town in east London, with a brief to deliver 1,750 homes on a 10ha site split by the A13.

The practice will work with a consortium that includes multi-disciplinary engineering and consultancy firm Buro Happold; Architecture Doing Place; AR Urbanism; and AS Urban on the project for the London Borough of Newham.

The project site is Newham’s Canning Town East regeneration area, also known as strategic site S15. It currently hosts low-rise homes, but is identified by the borough as being suitable for buildings of around six to eight stories, and up to 15 storeys at “key locations”.

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