Walthamstow Stadium

Conran’s architects have drawn up a blueprint for redeveloping Walthamstow Stadium for developer London & Quadrant (L&Q). The designs play a key role in helping tackle the area’s housing shortage while also preserving the site’s historic listed buildings.

The homes built would be a balanced mix of private, intermediate and affordable housing, constructed to high environmental sustainability standards.

Conran won the contract to design the scheme in open competition. The award-winning practice has designed and seen built innovative housing schemes throughout the UK and is particularly experienced at delivering high quality affordable housing the public wants to buy, rent and live in.

The £50 million plan, if approved, will also create up to 250 jobs and heralds a bright new future for the borough’s former greyhound stadium, which has been closed for a number of years – preserving the site’s historic listed buildings.

It will create 294 homes for local people in the borough and includes social housing for families.

Conran’s vision also includes a new leisure centre offering an extensive range of sporting activities. It will be set up as a community sports trust that will be run by the community for the community.

A children’s nursery will provide places for 80 children and there will also be a café and a crèche.

Parkland, play spaces a public plaza and allotments are also incorporated in the plan for site that has stood empty and unused since 2008.

Conran and Partners is renowned for its sensitive and innovative approach to regeneration and has spearheaded acclaimed projects across London. Its vision will bring the heritage of the site into long-term use for the whole community.

The development will also provide more than £4 million in contributions to local education, health, leisure and highways improvements.

Conran’s architects have led the way in urban design both in the UK and internationally in the last decade and their collective design expertise has been used to create a flagship development for the capital.

Affordable, sustainable and eye-catching housing schemes designed by Conran have been built throughout the South of England. The practice also pioneered quality urban high-rise apartment buildings in London and cities throughout the UK over the past 15 years.