Barking Riverside is one of London's largest housing sites and one of the most ambitious regeneration projects in the country. Occupying a 150 acre site on the north bank of the River Thames in East London, it will accommodate 10,800 homes and 26,000 people by 2020.

The project will transform the UK’s largest brownfield site into a new riverside urban community, with a mixture of housing types and tenures, with good local services, and served by good local transport including East London Transit and the proposed Docklands Light Railway extension to Dagenham Dock. The project is also a key component of the East London Green Grid and will reconnect neighbourhoods north of the A13 with the River Thames.

The Urban Design Framework has been prepared by Maxwan Architects + Urbanists and received outline planning approval in 2006. Detailed designs for the first phase of development have been prepared by Maccreanor Lavington Architects and Sheppard Robson with landscape designers Gustafson Porter, street designers JMP and highway designers Hyder. Subject to obtaining planning permission, construction is due to start this year with the first 50 units to be delivered in early 2010.

The project is being delivered by Barking Riverside Ltd, a joint venture company between the Homes & Communities Agency and Bellway Homes plc. The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham is also an integral delivery partner.

Design for London is design advisor for the project and participates in the Design Advisory Panel which holds regular monthly workshops with the masterplanning teams.

Partners: Bellway Homes, Homes & Communities Agency, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, London Thames Gateway Development Corporation