St Paul’s Way Trust School Expansion and Burdett Estate Regeneration
Number/street name:
St Paul's Way
Address line 2:
Mile End
City:
London
Postcode:
E3 4AL
Architect:
Pollard Thomas Edwards
Architect contact number:
Developer:
Poplar HARCA|Poplar HARCA, Telford Homes|Telford Homes.
Planning Authority:
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Planning Reference:
Date of Completion:
05/2025
Schedule of Accommodation:
42 x 1 bed apartments, 26 x 2 bed apartments, 15 x 3bed apartments, 14 x shared ownership apartments
Tenure Mix:
69% Market rent, 16% Shared ownership
Total number of homes:
Site size (hectares):
0.96
Net Density (homes per hectare):
121
Size of principal unit (sq m):
51
Smallest Unit (sq m):
45
Largest unit (sq m):
114
No of parking spaces:
n/a
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The Design Process
Since 2012, Poplar Harca in partnership with the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, has been in talks with the St Paul’s Way Trust School to regenerate part of the rundown Burdett and Leopold Estate, to create much needed new homes and new primary school to the area. Stakeholders of the existing mosque were also consulted during the redevelopment to shape the design of the new mosque. Proposed layouts for the brownfield site, comprising two outdated residential buildings, a rundown community centre and a mosque, were first discussed as a ‘T’ shape with playground space to either side of the site. A new revised scheme in 2013 presented the idea of a ‘cloistered’ school with classrooms around the edge of the site, which led to a Feasibility Report to refine the principles. Planning approval was granted in 2015, with Telford Homes appointed as contractor and to deliver the private sale homes. Demolition started in 2016.
