Stratford City, London
A new brownfield district’s open space strategy

Stratford City is a proposed new metropolitan centre for East London on 60 hectares of brownfield land in the Lower Lea Valley. It is anticipated that 4,500 new homes could be built by 2015. The aim is to deliver a ‘place of many places’ with five main objectives:

• To integrate with the Lee Valley Regional Park in order to extend habitats and fulfil metropolitan park functions;
• To provide a network of continuous open spaces linked to pedestrian and cycle networks and the wider public realm;
• To provide play facilities and recreational provision, which will serve areas of high density housing;
• To preserve, manage and enhance principal ecological areas to provide rich and diverse ecological habitats.

The open space strategy establishes a hierarchy of open spaces, and also establishes a complementary role for private and communal spaces, exploring space typologies and how they relate to different residential densities.

Sources:
1. Chelsfield (2004) Stratford City – political briefing, http://www.chelsfield.co.uk/home.htm
2. Chelsfield Stanhope LCR (2004) Stratford City - open space strategy, final draft