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With 2 km of the River Thames north bank and 150 ha to develop, the private and public partners behind Barking Riverside Ltd missed the recent speculative property boom while planning how best to deliver 10,800 homes for 26,000 people in East London. Consultants, including Dutch masters Maxwan and KCAP, have taken the designs to the point where this detailed application by Sheppard Robson for the first phases could at last address house and apartment types.

Delays included addressing the parallel overhead power lines that traverse the site. The decision to leave them be and let bold landscaping compete for attention is echoed in the marketing strategy for individual home designs. Buzzards Mouth Court is one of two first phases where homes are designed to hook families as houses with qualities rarely found in London for generations.

Roughly half the first 1451 will have three or more bedrooms and these houses have been created as generous typologies whose size is reflected in comic working titles, such as The Chief and The Bragger. The latter is a 3-storey townhouse whose trio of double bedrooms and one single bedroom tally 177 m2, giving it bragging rights for being half again bigger than space standards recently championed by the Mayor.

The Chief is another whopper at 154 m2 with a courtyard house plan. Accommodation is divided between a living and sleeping block, with bedrooms stacked in a 2-storey broad shallow block which is built back to back with another identical unit behind it. Living space is in a single-storey outrider to the front of the house which wraps an internal courtyard between the two elements, creating a secure and private outdoor space. Along with windows to the street and courtyard, the living space will also be toplit with roof lights

Another exceptional type is the 3-bed 133 m2 Wildone (a nod to the project leader Clive Wilding) whose T-shaped plan means both its generous living space and master bedroom will each have a dual aspect.

All houses are aligned with fenestration facing east or west to milk am or pm sunlight and most have been designed to be fitted with a green roof. The first, due early 2011, ought to prove worth the wait.

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