The Barking Riverside project is a major proposal for the large-scale, mixed-use regeneration of industrial wasteland in east London. Based on the concept of sustainable communities it comprises over 10,000 residential units, retail, office, schools, leisure space and a number of natural water reserves. The scheme is set within a strategic urban landscape and ecology plan, which carefully integrates with the built form.
Ashton New Road, in Clayton, east Manchester suffers from significant physical, social, and economic problems. The area has been identified by New East Manchester Urban Regeneration Company as a key priority. Sheppard Robson has been commissioned to carry out a strategic masterplan and development framework for the area; identifying a series of phased urban interventions to prevent further decline, foster community cohesion and establish a long-term, sustainable transformation process.
Sheppard Robson’s masterplan for the redevelopment of Finzels Reach in Bristol comprises a dynamic and diverse mixed-use scheme of luxury apartments, social housing, landscaped gardens, grade-A office space, quality public realm and more than 8,300m² of shops, restaurants and cafés, all with full accessibility to the floating harbour waterside.
Sheppard Robson, as part of the SixtyK consortium, was selected as preferred bidder for Coxheath, a 3.9ha site formerly known as Linton Hospital, as part of the Deputy Prime Minister’s Design for Manufacture competition - the second win in the competition for SixtyK.
RAF West Ruislip is a vacant brownfield site located immediately north of Ickenham town centre in the London Borough of Hillingdon. Sheppard Robson’s redevelopment proposal includes a large area of previously developed land. This land has created an opportunity to for a new, distinctive, high-quality and sustainable neighbourhood extension of West Ruislip, with the aim of generating a sense of community and local identity in the area.
Sheppard Robson is working as part of a joint venture consortium to deliver the MoD’s consolidation of MoD land within London - Project MoDEL. RAF Uxbridge, the largest of the project MoDEL sites at 44.4ha, has been proposed as a new development adjacent to Uxbridge town centre, and incorporates a mixture of uses led by a high density residential development above commercial and office spaces.
Rowan Road was the largest of the ten sites to be part of the Design for Manufacture competition, and the third to be won by the SixtyK consortium led by Sheppard Robson. The proposed Rowan Road scheme includes 217 new homes, consisting of new build houses and flats, and the refurbishment of the locally listed school into flats. A new doctor’s surgery and community hall to serve the new and existing residents has also been proposed.
Sheppard Robson was appointed to prepare an Urban Design Strategy for the first of a planned series of new towns for location within the Shanghai district. With four universities and the premier Shanghai teaching hospital, Songjiang will act as a major educational, commercial and recreational centre for Shanghai. The town has a planned population of 500,000 and will be accessible from the centre of Shanghai by a mass transit route.