Bishopsgate Goodsyard, Shoreditch, London E1

Bishopsgate Goodsyard E1 is a 10-acre mixed-use redevelopment project in the City Fringe area in Shoreditch, Central London.

Plans and proposals for redeveloping Bishopsgate Goodsyard date back to 2011 and involve developers Hammerson and Ballymore, GLA, Tower Hamlets and Hackney boroughs and public affected by the project. The masterplan was submitted to the GLA in October 2019 with further amendments that followed in June 2020.

This complex and challenging project aims to revitalise a largely empty site in the City Fringe area into a living destination with new homes, a park and jobs for the local community. The final decision is expected by the Mayor of London after a public hearing scheduled on 3 December 2020. If the decision is positive, the work on the site could start in 2022. Two boroughs involved in the project, Hackney and Tower Hamlets, are supporting the project in principle although the former has recently voiced concerns on “design and historical grounds”.

Bishopsgate Goodsyard has been masterplanned by Faulkner Browns and has attracted a wide team of architects including Buckley Gray Yeoman, Chris Dyson, and Spacehub, WSP, Hoare Lea and Gardiner & Theobald.

The scheme is expected to deliver approx. 500 homes of which half will be affordable, as well as to generate jobs, affordable workspace, retail, restaurant and leisure space, improved local transport links and public realm with a High Line-style park formed on top of the restored railway arches featuring a series of connected gardens, terraces and walkways.

Dating back to 11the century, this London district is rich with heritage buildings requiring careful planning, restauration and preservation. A list of several such sites adds to its complexity attracting interest and response from a range of local and national archaeology and heritage groups and authorities carefully monitoring every step of the planning process. The current heritage assets’ list includes The Grade II Listed Oriel Gate, The restored Grade II Listed Braithwaite Arches, The Weaver’s Cottages and Mission Hall, historic boundary walls and railway structures and assets.

In the eighteen-thirties, the Eastern Counties Railway,cut across the north of Spitalfields to construct Bishopsgate Station on Shoreditch High St. The Goodsyard passenger Station operated from 1840 to 1875 and became obsolete with the railway extension south to Liverpool Street. Soon after, the station became a freight hub abandoned again after a fire in 1964. The developers bought the site from Railtrack in 2002.

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