Silvertown Quays

New housing and mixed uses neighbouring the iconic Millennium Mills

Our proposals for 326 new affordable homes and ten townhouses at Silvertown were approved by Newham Council planning in January 2025. Gort Scott is now supporting the project through construction.

The development is a key element in an early phase of the £3.5 billion programme led by The Silvertown Partnership – in conjunction with the Greater London Authority and Homes England – to regenerate 50 acres within the Royal Docks Opportunity Area in Newham. Founded on the area’s rich industrial heritage, the diverse Silvertown neighbourhood will form a vibrant new centre for the Royal Docks and Newham, bringing around 6,500 new homes, 500,000 sq.ft of leisure space, 1,200,000 sq.ft of workspace, and a high quality public realm and network of green spaces.
 

Our work was informed by our knowledge and expertise about High Streets and public spaces, and a desire to create a characterful and successful new neighbourhood with plentiful opportunities for social integration and interaction. The development forms a significant part of the western boundary of the masterplan – knitting into the existing fabric of Silvertown, introducing new neighbourhood connections, and creating welcoming public spaces for the whole community.

The new buildings are organised as a series of mansion blocks, forming one half of a vibrant new local street, linking a major new community park and the Grade II Listed Silo D building to the historic Millenium Mills square. Active uses like shops and restaurants, with outdoor seating and spaces, will animate the street, part of a wider pedestrian priority network across the wider Silvertown district. Clearly identifiable residential building entrances provide direct views through to leafy communal courtyard gardens for residents to enjoy, which includes play spaces and opportunities for food growing.
 

The scale and massing of the buildings was carefully considered to mediate between existing homes and communities to the west and the emerging Silvertown masterplan, helping to create a cohesive wider neighbourhood. The massing ensures good levels of daylight to Evelyn Walk, a new pocket park and east-west pedestrian and visual connection, and to communal residential courtyards. The massing steps down and the facade design was carefully considered to ensure reduced scale and more relaxed frontage to Silo D Park – an important public space for the new community.

We developed our proposals with OMMX the collaborating architects as part of our team, and with masterplanners Prior + Partners, alongside several other leading architecture practices working on plots across the site.

Further information

Data

Location
Silvertown, London
Project type
Homes and mixed-use
Status
Planning approved January 2025
Floor area
34700m2

Credits

Clients
Lendlease, The Silvertown Partnership
Gort Scott Team
Jay Gort, Fiona Scott, Chris Neve, Alan Worn, Amy Wong, Barnaby Hughes, Paul Wild, Florence Fathers, Martin Veselov
Collaborators
OMMX (Collaborative Architect), Prior + Partners (Masterplan), Lendlease (CDM Principal Designer), Equals Consulting (Project manager and Quantity surveyor), Robert Bird Group (Structural Engineer), Aecom (Building services, sustainability, infrastructure and utilities), Churchman Thornhill Finch (Landscape), Sandy Brown (Acoustics), OFR Consultants (Fire), Arup (Façades), Arup (Transport, servicing and waste), Cityscape (Visualiser), DP9 (Planning consultant), TÜV SÜD (Access and maintenance), Andrew Lord Consultants (Accessibility), GIA (Daylight and sunlight), Michael Grubbs Studio (External Lighting), Greengage (Ecology), WSP (BIM Information Manager)

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