Ahead of a £1.5bn development, Populo Living shares its plan to boost regeneration in Newham

By Daniel Gayne2025-07-28T06:00:00

Carpenters Estate_Aerial_Credit Proctor and Matthews, Metropolitan Workshop

Source: Proctor and Matthews, Metropolitan Workshop

In 2018, a new mayor tasked Newham’s housing company with building more affordable homes. Seven years later, it’s getting ready for its biggest scheme yet. Daniel Gayne headed east to find out more

Curving southwards away from the River Lee Navigation, Carpenters Road cleaves a path through the middle of the vast Olympic development; the London Stadium, aquatics centre, and East Bank on one side, Westfield, East Village and Queen Elizabeth Park on the other. This is one of the most intensively redeveloped corners of the capital and it has become a symbol of both the good and bad of major regeneration.

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