Weston Homes has received planning permission from the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham to regenerate the Town Quay Wharf site on Barking’s waterfront
Located off Abbey Road, this development plans to provide 147 newly built apartments and 1,000 sqm of commercial space designed around a public plaza overlooking the Mill Pond and River Roding.
On the landward side of the development are the green open areas of Abbey Green.
Designed to reconnect the town centre to the waterfront, the new development at Town Quay Wharf will provide three striking buildings. An 11-storey and two 7-storey respectively, with pedestrian boulevards between them, opening onto the new public plaza on the waterfront.
Of the 147 apartments, 85 will be for private sale, with the balance comprising shared ownership and affordable rent homes. Residents will have use of a resident’s-only podium garden with the apartments on the upper floors offering panoramic views over the Mill Pond or Abbey Green
The planning committee resolved unanimously to approve the Town Quay Wharf scheme, subject to the finalisation of a Section 106 Agreement and the receipt of a favourable GLA Stage 2 report.
The planning process will be concluded in the next 2-3 months which will then release the final formal planning consent.
To create a new vision for the Town Quay Wharf development Weston Homes has working closely with PRP Architects, Iceni, the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham and Be First, the Borough’s pioneering urban regeneration company.
Along the waterfront, immediately to the north of the new Town Quay Wharf development, is the £350m (GDV) Abbey Quays, another landmark development in Barking by Weston Homes.
Set to launch to the market from a spectacular on-site marketing suite in the summer of 2021 Abbey Quays will provide 1,089 new homes of mixed tenure alongside retail, commercial and leisure facilities.
‘A vibrant new waterfront development’
Bob Weston, chairman & chief executive of Weston Homes. said: “Weston Homes is delighted to have gained a resolution to grant planning for our new Town Quay Wharf development on the waterfront at Barking.
“Town Quay Wharf will help to reconnect Barking town centre with the waterfront and create a vibrant new waterfront development with apartments benefitting from a waterside and parkside setting.
“Weston Homes has a track record of delivery in Barking and this is the company’s tenth residential development in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.
“Town Quay Wharf and Abbey Quays represent some £400m (GDV) of new development on the Barking waterfront underlining Weston Homes role as one of the leading residential developers in the local area.”
