Our developments

Our developments

The Royal Docks is on its way to being transformed into a dynamic new destination for London. Powered by its diverse communities, pioneering spirit and global links, the Royal Docks is the future of London.

Bringing our future vision to life are eight major development schemes that will collectively deliver at least 12,000 new homes in the Royal Docks. Underpinning these developments are five cross-cutting programmes.

Key developments in the Royal Docks

Brunel Street Works (completed)

Brunel Street Works (completed)

Opal, a joint venture between Galliford Try and Thames Valley Housing, is currently constructing 975 mixed-tenure homes at Brunel Street Works — with 35% of these homes affordable, including 172 social rented. The site, which sits on Silvertown Way in Canning Town, will also create 8,000 sq m of mixed-use and community space, including a 110-bedroom Premier Inn hotel.

Millet Place (completed)

Millet Place (completed)

These 150 rental apartments by Grainger and Link City are situated beside Pontoon Dock DLR station and Thames Barrier Park.

Newly finished office blocks by the water

Royal Albert Wharf

The RIBA award-winning new community includes 1,500 new homes with 40% affordable, and just short of 100,000 sq ft of new workspaces, artist studios, shops, café, leisure and community space between Gallions Reach DLR, Royal Albert Basin and the Thames.

Thameside West

Thameside West

The Foster masterplanned scheme from Keystone Partners will deliver 7,000 new homes on the old Tetley Carlsberg site along the Thames opposite Greenwich Peninsula. Works will start after the completion of the Silvertown Tunnel here.

Albert Island

Albert Island

Albert Island marks the original entrance to the Royal Docks, between the Thames and Royal Albert Basin. Today, it's set to become the focus for London’s growing infrastructure and logistics industries. The 25-acre site will include a range of workspaces, including light industrial space and offices for small, medium and large businesses. There are also plans for a cutting-edge new shipyard for the Thames — the first to be built in central London in recent years.

Royal Albert Dock

Royal Albert Dock

Royal Albert Dock is a new international district. The scheme is designed to bring businesses of different scales and sectors together in spaces that range from 1,300 to 120,000 sq ft. The waterfront community along the northern edge of the Royal Albert Dock will include a vibrant high street with shops and enriching amenities. Situated between three DLR stations, it is also near London City Airport and the new Elizabeth Line station at Custom House.

Discover our neighbourhoods

When seen as a whole, the Royal Docks is a singular, massive place. On closer observation it is actually made up of a series of five neighbourhoods, each with its own character, context and role. Defining specific public spaces, creative industry clusters and mixed-use cultural character areas will enable the Royal Docks as a whole to flourish.

Meet the people who make up our neighbourhoods
Canning Town

Canning Town

An established East End neighbourhood, Canning Town provided dense areas of housing back in the 1800s – primarily for dock workers. Since then, significant regeneration has diversified Canning Town as a district centre, strengthening its connections with the Docks, the Thames and Bow Street, thanks to development along Silverton Way (such as Brunel Street Works), City Island and adjacent to the Royal Victoria Dock. Importantly, new and extensive areas of industrial and commercial workspace are helping Canning Town retain its reputation as a place of industry.

Silvertown

Silvertown

An exciting hub of activity is emerging in Silvertown, an area that’s long been dominated by industrial uses, with its residential population set to double between now and 2038. Most significantly, Lend Lease’s Silvertown Quays development will have delivered 5,600 new homes by 2040 on currently vacant land. New uses for the surviving Millennium Mills buildings and around Pontoon Dock will provide the greatest intensity of residential, commercial and cultural uses in the Royal Docks area, incorporating many of Silvertown’s heritage structures and artefacts into the designs.

North Woolwich

North Woolwich

North Woolwich feels like a more established community than other neighbourhoods in the Royal Docks, with strong links to the Thames through Royal Victoria Gardens and related public routes. Key employers, Tate & Lyle and London City Airport, account for significantly higher employment figures than most neighbourhoods, while the population also has on average more residents over 65. A network of community infrastructure at North Woolwich provides an array of community services and thanks to the Woolwich Ferry and foot tunnel, residents can also access Woolwich town centre across the Thames.

Royal Albert

Royal Albert

Recent development at Royal Albert Wharf has injected a new vitality to the neighbourhood, which frames a small body of water at Albert Basin. The University of East London, a significant education and research institution, has introduced a vibrant student population and through its Knowledge Dock, an incubator of new businesses and innovation. The flagship Albert Island project is expected to spectacularly transform the area’s economic activity, with proposals for a substantial new marina, boatyard, industrial workspace – as well as a foreshore park – to be delivered between the docks and the Thames.

Custom House

Custom House

The recent arrival of the Elizabeth Line at Custom House station has consolidated the area as a gateway to the Royal Docks, creating a fast route to key destinations across London. The wider Custom House area is an established community, with a strong distinction between economic and cultural activity along the dock edge – dominated by ExCeL London and Newham Council – and more traditional communities to the north. The two areas are separated by rail infrastructure and a swathe of green spaces, including parks and allotments.

Royal Victoria & West Silvertown

Royal Victoria & West Silvertown

Home to City Hall, the IFS Cloud Cable Car, Expressway, and Good Hotel - Royal Victoria and West Silvertown enjoys riverside views towards the 02, Canary Wharf and the City. This mixed-use area will provide more than 7,000 new homes, as well as a new DLR station and 4-acre riverside park, once development sites at Thameside West, the Limmo and Knights Road, come forward.

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