39-47 East Road
39-47 East Road
Catalyst for urban greening
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Public realm improvements provide a catalyst for new borough-wide green infrastructure and ecological corridors.
Re-development of the site will provide an opportunity to improve the public realm in the immediate area and act as a catalyst for a future vision to extend green infrastructure from Old Street up East Road, to Shoreditch Park and Regents Canal to create an ecological corridor of squares and parklets.
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The proposals seek to pedestrianise the adjacent Silbury Street to strengthen pedestrian links and retain historic yorkstone steps, listed bollards and reuse heritage granite setts to provide a new public realm with urban greening and seating opportunities.
The design also proposes to remove sections of the highway to offer a more generous pedestrian route with improved biodiverse planting, SuDS, street trees and parklets, redefining streets as places for people and improving air quality.
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Project
39-47 East Road, Hackney, London
Client
Summix Capital Limited
Size
0.5 Hectare
Status
Project Status Concept to Planning
Collaborators
Flanagan Lawrence, Gardiner & Theobald, Caneparo Associates, DP9, City Designer