Pudding Mill neighbourhood overview

This page provides an overview of Pudding Mill as a neighbourhood illustrating how Pudding Mill Lane and Bridgewater Triangle will work together.

The proposals developed for Pudding Mill Lane and Bridgewater Triangle are at masterplan level, which means that a framework for the future neighbourhood has been created with key considerations fixed such as types of uses across the area, maximum heights, key routes and routes and quantum of open space.

The proposals have been tested through creating an illustrative scheme shown here, fits within the parameters being submitted as part of the outline planning applications. It provides an illustrative example of how detailed designs could potentially look across both Pudding Mill Lane and Bridgewater Triangle.

They following diagrams illustrate key principles across the two masterplans ensuring that the two proposals work as one neighbourhood.

Key uses

The masterplans for Pudding Mill Lane and Bridgewater Triangle are primarily residential led but also include two new community centres, shops, places to eat and drink, a nursery, space for a new health centre, older persons housing, workspace organised with a local centre and quieter residential areas. The drawing below shows the proposed predominant uses across the sites.

New homes

Overall Pudding Mill will deliver approximately 1,500 new homes across a range of types and styles such as town houses with gardens, maisonettes with roof gardens or flats with balconies. There will be a range of sizes from one-bedroom flats to larger family homes.

Pudding Mill will provide a large number of much needed affordable homes for the area. Around 45% of all homes to be built, around 600 in total, will be affordable. These will be a mixture of London Living Rent, London Affordable Rent and Shared Ownership tenures.

Key routes

The diagram above shows key routes and connections across the Pudding Mill neighbourhood. Together the proposals will improve east-west connections, with easy to navigate streets being created for pedestrians and cyclists. The Pudding Mill Lane local centre will be important anchor along the north- south link between the Park and Stratford High Street, Sugar House Island and beyond.

The drawing indicates space along Marshgate Lane which is being safeguarded to allow Transport for London to make additional improvements in the future to bus services in the area.

A network of public streets, squares, and parks

The diagram above shows new squares and parks across Pudding Mill Lane and Bridgewater Triangle which are being created. In total across the neighbourhood there will be 3 new public squares, 2 riverside parks, high quality courtyards, pedestrianised priority routes, 5 pocket parks, and new waterfront route with a focus on biodiversity and play.

Sustainability

Sustainability is a key principle informing the Pudding Mill Lane and Bridgewater Triangle masterplans and will continue to be developed as the plans are progressed into detail designs.

A guiding principle is that the masterplans need to recognise that the climate emergency is one of the defining issues of our time. It is therefore important that we embed the overarching principles of a net Zero Carbon City into the masterplans.

The masterplans set out the broad principles for sustainability across the Pudding Mill neighbourhood which are: