ANDREW BAKER
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regeneration
Revamp brings ‘amazing opportunities’ for entrepreneurial architects in Newham
T e run-down inner London Borough of Newham is embarking on a massive regeneration programme valued at £3.7 billion, bringing a windfall of design work, writes Richard Waite
‘Nowhere else in Europe can off er this scale of investment opportunity,’ boasts Newham Borough Council in its economic strategy document. T e ambitious, 48-page
manifesto sets out the massive scale of proposed redevelopment in the deprived east London borough, starting at the Olympic Park and Stratford City in the north, down through the £3.7 billion regeneration of Canning Town (pictured top) and Custom House, and on to the T ames and the Royal Docks. T is is what the
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development team calls its ‘arc of opportunity’. It is masterminded by a team led by Clive Dutton, best known for steering Birmingham’s regeneration between 2005 and 2009. Supporting him is (says
Dutton) a ‘red hot senior management team’ – a newly- formed directorate including Philip Singleton, who worked with Dutton drafting Birmingham’s much-publicised Big City Plan, and John East, the former joint leader of the Central London planning team at >>
MASTERMINDS Philip Singleton (left) and John East 11
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