We are working across London to provide ambitious improvements to the network of public spaces, from the doorstep to the street, parks and landscapes.

The Mayor�s 100 Public Spaces Programme project for Woolwich has been conceived to complement and build on the investment in the Town Centre and create a series of linked spaces running through the Town Centre, connecting Woolwich Common with the River Thames. The core of this project will be the redesign and linking of General Gordon, Beresford, and Dial Arch Squares.

Design
Designers for General Gordon Place and Beresford Square, the first phase of the scheme, will be selected through an open design competition, with a winner to be announced in Summer 2008.

Witherford Watson Mann Architects and Colin Buchanan have designed the road and pavement realignment works, which are currently on site. The works, funded by Central Government, enable enhance public transport access create the potential for a re-design of the squares by closing a number of key roads.

With the Greenwich Waterfront Transit scheduled to be up and running by 2010, TfL will deliver a key part of the linkage from the Town Squares to the River via Number 1 Street, which is currently being designed by Burns + Nice.

The other key landscape phase, linking the Squares with Woolwich Common in the South will largely be delivered by Tesco ad St James Investment on the Love Lane site, who have planning consent for a masterplan by Collado Collins including London�s largest Tesco store and up to 1000 residential units.

Delivery
TfL is project managing the implementation of road and public realm works in collaboration with the Woolwich Regeneration Agency. Design for London is advising both partners.

The Woolwich Regeneration Agency is heading up the squares selection process with assistance from Urban Practitioners and Design for London. The expectation is that General Gordon Square will be completed 2009 and Beresford Square in 2010.

Funding
Community Infrastructure Funding by DfT and DCLG is funding the road and footpath realignment. Public sector funding has been secured through S.106 and TfL area based scheme funding for the first phase of the competition and implementation of a large part of the squares. Additional funding contributions will be sought from other sources.