Aberfeldy Village
| Aberfeldy Village | |
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| General information | |
| Location | Poplar |
| Town or city | London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Landlord | Poplar HARCA |
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Aberfeldy Village is a new urban village development in Poplar in Greater London, England. It was formally a council housing estate called the Aberfeldy Estate, which is the process of being transformed in a joint venture between Poplar HARCA and Willmott Dixon into a new neighbourhood and is sometimes referred to as Aberfeldy New Village in planning documents.[1]
History
Aberfeldy Estate
The site of the old estate was located on what was the northern boundary of the Import Dock, famous for the importing of exotic goods during the 18th and 19th century. However it was heavily bombed during the Second World War and subsequently redeveloped into the Aberfeldy Estate.[2]
It was built in various phases between the 1930s and continued after the surrounding area being heavily damaged and this went on until the late 1970s. The estate and surrounding area suffered from severe social disadvantage with high levels of unemployment, low incomes, poor health and anti-social behaviour problems.[3]
Poplar HARCA took over the running of the estate following the successful transfer into their ownership in two tranches, one in 1998 and another in 2007 as part of the Council’s Housing Choice programme. They had owned and managed the estate since the transfers.[3] In 2012, Poplar HARCA and Willmott Dixon obtained planning permission for a joint redevelopment of the Aberfeldy Estate. The plans included 1,100 new homes and improved amenities to be provided over twelve years.[4][5]
Geography
Aberfeldy Village is situated on a triangular site bounded by the A12, A13, East India Dock Road and Abbott Road, which has an excess of 1,000 new homes and an energy centre, new modern retail, community and health amenities, with public and green spaces built into the building fabric.[6]
The new homes are arranged around this linear green space in medium rise, high density buildings ranging from four to ten storeys. Lower, more domestic scale buildings sit adjacent to the neighbouring estate, whilst higher, muscular, robust buildings along the A13 provide a degree of protection to this urban edge.[2]
Three phases consisting of a total of 8 new key residential blocks, ranging from 10 storeys (Blocks A, H and J), 8 storeys (Blocks E and G) (10 storey) and 6 storeys (Blocks C, D and F) which form a part of this significant regeneration project.[7]
Occupancy
The rental homes in Aberfeldy Village are almost at full occupancy by residents, who have an average income of £39kPa and are at the average age of 28.[8]
Transport
Aberfeldy Village shares most of it transport infrastructure with neighbouring Poplar locality of South Bromley and is well connected by London Buses routes, 309 on Aberfeldy Street and Blair Street and 115, N15, N550, N551 on East India Dock Road and D8 on the Blackwall Northern Approach.
References
- ^ "Leaside Planning - Aberfeldy Estate". leasideplanning.co.uk.
- ^ a b "Aberfeldy Estate — Levitt Bernstein". www.levittbernstein.co.uk.
- ^ a b https://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/Documents/Planning-and-building-control/Aberfeldy_SoR_140616.pdf
- ^ Gavriel Hollander, East London regen project given green light Archived 17 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Inside Housing, 13 July 2012
- ^ Aberfeldy Village Archived 31 December 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Casey Fierro Architects
- ^ "Aberfeldy Village - New London Development". New London Development.
- ^ "toga-fire". toga-fire.
- ^ https://www.futureoflondon.org.uk/2016/07/27/making-build-rent-tower-hamlets-visit/
