The masterplan for London Square Bermondsey sees the regeneration of a run-down and disjointed industrial estate in central London, bringing many vacant and under-used buildings with historic value back into use. The site includes some of the last remaining examples of buildings for the tannery trade, an industry that came to define Bermondsey in the 19th and early 20th century. From the early twentieth century, the site was used by Crosse & Blackwell as its main London processing and canning factory. The scheme refurbishes these existing buildings and supplements them with new ones to provide new commercial, retail and residential uses.

The masterplan provides for more than 400 new homes, 35% of which will be affordable and social housing, with a new commercial hub of approximately 20,000 sqm dedicated to small and medium-sized enterprises. This allows the retention of two resident artist groups - The Drawing Room/Tannery Arts and Southwark Studios - who have been on site for the past 20 years and with whom the design team has collaborated on parts of the scheme to create a better sense of place.

Phase one of the masterplan was completed in 2022 with AHMM’s The Crosse (plot 2), The Canning (Plot 6) and Coffey Architects’ The Tannery (Plot 1) and AHMM’s The Pickle Factory (Plot 5) completed in 2023 as part of Phase Two. The final phase, due to complete in 2025 will see the final part of the masterplan completed by AHMM - The Blackwell (Plot 4 )

A sequence of green spaces renews land previously contaminated by centuries of industrial use. The new landscape comprises of the planting of more than 100 trees across the site, and the creation of new public and private open planted spaces. The private, residential gardens have been designed to have individual identities, allowing them to respond to the architecture around them.

The masterplan looks to reconnect the currently disjointed site and stitch it back into the local area through new routes and connections to the new development. Overlapping gardens engage with new pedestrian routes and active commercial frontages at the lower levels, animate the existing streets as well as opening up new spaces.

Awards
  • 2024  Housing Design Award - Homes England Masterplan
  • 2024 World Architecture Festival - Completed Housing, Highly Commended
  • 2024 Building Award - Net Zero Award, Highly Commended
2019
Location
Bermondsey, London
Client
London Square

World Architecture Festival Awards 2024 08.11.24

Housing Design Awards 2024 13.09.24

World Architecture Festival Awards 2024 Shortlist 08.07.24

London Square Bermondsey tops out 21.04.20

Housing Design Awards shortlist 16.04.20

Allford
Hall
Monaghan
Morris