Bow Goods Yard Industrial Masterplan

Bow Goods Yard is one of the last undeveloped and underused sites of this section of the Lea Valley.

Bow Goods Yard is in this unique location at the intersection of the natural landscape of the River Lea Valley, the marshes, the canal systems, and various ecological networks and of a cultural and social landscape shaped by the opportunities for sport, education, socialising, leisure and events dotted around Stratford, the Olympic Park, Hackney Wick, Fish Island, and Victoria Park.
Recognising the uniqueness of this context is essential to create a masterplan that can look beyond its red line boundary and current uses, to tie in with the surroundings, becoming the last piece of the Olympic Legacy Jigsaw.

Bow Goods Yard masterplan will achieve a high degree of intensification of the 12.3 ha brownfield site. Alongside rail-freight-related uses, it will provide a range of other employment opportunities, including Network Rail’s Anglia Route Super Hub. Part of the site is proposed to be released from the Strategic Industrial Location (SIL) designation to allow for leisure uses within it.

The existing green and blue infrastructure of the Lea Valley is an incredible asset that Bow Goods Yard can strengthen by taking a green infrastructure rather than a green space approach to designing the landscape spaces. The landscape framework establishes a series of linked and coherent places that function as a whole as well as independently.