Client: LB Newham
Location: New Barn Street E13
Duration: 2021 – Current
Density: 32 Homes to Passivhaus standards + community garden
FBM were appointed by Newham Borough Council in 2021 to develop proposals for a derelict site on the west side of New Barn Street. To the north is the 22 storey Stubbs Point and to the south is a used car dealership and breakers yard with a large public footpath open space to the west/ northwest. The front of the site was occupied by the former Army and Navy Public House facing New Barn Street.
The scheme will provide 100% affordable development of 32 new homes to Passivhaus standards with over 40% as family sized dwellings. Alongside the two buildings will be extensive improvements to the public realm, especially to the green area to the north and a new north-south pedestrian route through the site.The proposal is separated across two blocks to avoid building-over an historic sewer that runs through the site. This approach reintroduces a historic connection between Jutland Road and Denmark Street as a new pedestrian link to the park space. The existing public green space to the north of the site will be incorporated into the scheme’s landscape strategy and enhanced.
The blocks contain a combination of single level apartments or stacked maisonettes and create lots of front doors to the street or the park, with Three- and four-bedroom duplex homes at the lower levels. A new shared green space for resident use will be introduced at the western end of the site – providing a buffer between the new block and the neighbouring houses on Carson Road.
The material choices and elevational approach reflect both the surrounding two stored Victorian terrace housing and the post war housing along Denmark Street. The brick clad blocks contain a secondary scale of soldier coursed banding, string courses and inset spandrel panels above and below window openings to give a scale and tactility to the facades.