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Newham Council has unanimously approved PTE’s 29-storey riverside development for The Pickstock Group on Stratford High Street. The mixed-use Build to Rent scheme delivers 355 homes - 25% affordable - alongside a Spacehub-designed public garden, linking Bow Back River to the High Street. It also features a new café and performance venue, enriching local creative industries and hosting national jazz concerts and exhibitions. Revitalising a brownfield site left vacant for eight years, the project introduces two buildings at 13 and 29 storeys. The form is inspired by the river’s shifting contours in this location, expressed through alternating bands of material texture and reflectivity. These contours extend from the buildings to connect generous entrance lobbies for both tenures and create a sheltered social space on the garden’s urban edge. Communal residential amenities crown each building, offering lounges, dining and screening rooms, workspaces, and indoor and outdoor play hubs. From here residents can enjoy sweeping views across Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and Three Mills Island. ‘We are delighted to have received planning permission for this development and the positive benefits it will bring to the local community. Alongside much needed homes, the garden-side cafe adds an exciting performance venue to the emerging cultural quarter’ says PTE Partner Carl Vann. ‘The architecture responds to the place narrative – it emerges from a contoured landscape, it includes verdant escarpments at set-back levels and is then carefully sculptured at upper levels to reference the contours of the surrounding city skyline’. Project team: Client: The Pickstock Group Local Authority: London Borough of Newham Architects: Pollard Thomas Edwards Planning Consultant: Rolfe Judd Planning Cost Consultant: CPC Project Services Building Services Engineer: Environmental Services Design Community Consultation: Kanda Consulting Landscape Architect: Spacehub Rights of Light: GIA Structural Engineer: Whitby Wood Highways Consultants: Curtins EIA Consultant: Trium Environmental Consulting LLP Fire Consultant: Jensen Hughes Principle Designer/CDM: ORSA Townscape & Heritage: The Townscape Consultancy

Thrilled to announce that The Meadows was awarded Best New Building and L2 Orchard Park received Highly Commended at last night's Greater Cambridge Design and Construction Awards 2025. Congratulations to all the teams involved in winning these awards. We are really proud of what we are accomplishing as a partnership to deliver much needed new council homes and community facilities across the city. #GCDC #awardwinning #Cambridge #partnership #newhomes #community Hill Group UK Cambridge City Council Mole Architects Potter Raper Pollard Thomas Edwards calfordseaden

Wonderful to see our ‘better than net zero’ Bromham project moving forward. Pollard Thomas Edwards also worked with the landowners to develop their legacy vision, which culminated in a design/placemaking quality Benchmark Document to guide development of the site. We think finding ways for landowners to get quality development, while achieving lasting financial value, is key to our role raising development standards. If you have a potential opportunity please do get in touch so we can share what we do, and how we do it.

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🏆A pub quiz by PTE for Crisis at The Duke of Diespeker Come join us at Pollard Thomas Edwards for a fun and informative evening! Test your knowledge in this interactive quiz organised by PTE in support of Crisis. Bring your colleagues for a night of trivia, laughter, and a chance to make a difference. See you there! 🗓️ Thursday 24 April 2025 🕕 6-9pm 🏫 The Duke of Diespeker, 38 Graham Street, London N1 8JX 🎟️ Book your team here: https://lnkd.in/diQEzAbN

This insight highlights the urgent need to retrofit existing social housing to meet the UK's Net Zero targets. Newlon Housing Trust's Old Barnsbury Estate showcases both the challenges and opportunities of improving energy efficiency in older buildings, particularly where traditional methods are impractical. While innovative solutions have been proposed, a lack of government funding has stalled progress, reflecting a broader issue in the UK's approach to deep retrofitting. View Insight: https://lnkd.in/gtHhV-7Z Insight Authors: Jonathan Hoban, Josh Hymer, Warrick Thomas Partner organisations: Pollard Thomas Edwards and Martin Arnold Ltd

Join this new RIBA Journal webinar and explore innovative materials and collaborations for sustainable architecture. Alexis Butterfield, Partner – New Settlements, Pollard Thomas Edwards and Michael Mueller, Director, Alison Brooks Architects, will deliver a joint presentation on Knights Park, Eddington - North West Cambridge Development - a net-zero carbon, high-density development of 249 homes designed as a sustainable neighbourhood. The webinar will be chaired by jan-carlos kucharek, Deputy Editor, RIBAJ https://lnkd.in/dFMVMp9U 📷 Tom Ruff 🙌

A wee preview of Pollard Thomas Edwards' March Talking Point - *Building new towns in our failing inner cities* - in this month's newsletter: Remember that bit in Trainspotting when Ewan MacGregor’s Renton overdoses, then is left outside on the road by his heroin dealer, Mother Superior? Renton seems blissful, yet all around him as he lies in the gutter, we see a landscape fashioned in hell: derelict tenements, empty streets, broken glass, and open spaces where homes, shops and a vibrant civic culture surely once thrived. That place is Teucharhill in Govan, Glasgow but the scene could have been filmed in any number of locations within the city’s boundaries. Today, nearly 30 years since the film of the book’s release, those grim dwellings may be long gone, but in Glasgow’s industrial neighbourhoods little has been built to replace them. Derelict land in the city still flourishes, with close to 10 million square metres on the Vacant & Derelict Land register (in 2022). Yet Glasgow’s forgotten townscapes - like the former steel town Possilpark with its gridiron plan or the former mining village of Robroyston now hemmed in by the M8 motorway - are exactly where we should be building the first of Angela Reyner’s new towns. Maybe you’re already laughing. No, no, no - new towns should be built where people want to live, where the jobs are, where London is within easy reach . . . Read the rest here: https://lnkd.in/edFtBhtB #newtowns #Glasgow #innercity #brownfield #housing'

PTE sustainability and innovation partner Dr Tom Dollard is at Futurebuild. If you haven't seen him already there's still time. Catch him at these sessions or drop him a message if you'd like to meet up. Best Practice Water Efficiency and Reuse in Housing - in partnership with the Good Homes Alliance 🗓️ Tuesday 4th March - 3:30PM - 4:15PM Placemaking Impact Stage Chaired by Rory Olcayto Speakers: Catherine Moncrieff, Saffron Corcoran, Dr Tom Dollard The vital role of building performance evaluation (BPE) in ensuring high quality outcomes in new homes and retrofit - in partnership with the Good Homes Alliance 🗓️ Wednesday 5th March -  12:30PM - 1:15PM Buildings Impact Stage Chaired by Dr Tom Dollard Speakers: Dr Katharine van Someren, Kerry Mashford OBE, Luke Smith, Rajat Gupta Delivering Retrofit at Scale Whilst Preserving Our National Heritage 🗓️ Wednesday 5th March - 2:45PM - 3:45PM National Retrofit Conference Chaired by Craig Wright Speakers: Jack Ostrofsky, Marion Baeli, Dr Tom Dollard TALK: Regenerative design at scale 🗓️ Thursday 6th March - 10:30AM - 11:00AM ACAN Fringe (Stand F24) Speaker: Dr Tom Dollard Full programme here: https://lnkd.in/edRYdEyv

Partners, Carl Vann and Simon Whitley will be running the London Marathon this year on Sunday 27 April, in aid of Crisis. This continues our partnership with the national charity for people experiencing homelessness, and their campaign for the changes needed to solve it altogether. Our philosophy at PTE has always been that good quality housing for all is the foundation of positive mental and physical wellbeing in our communities. However, over recent years we have witnessed housing provision falling well below the population growth, often referred to as the housing crisis. The real crisis though, is lack of access to decent housing for low-income households. The combination of low supply and increasing inequality has pushed unprecedented numbers of vulnerable people into homelessness. We hope that you can join us in this cause, no donation too small - every contribution makes a difference. Carl’s donation page: https://lnkd.in/dEhjBsVj Simon’s donation page: https://lnkd.in/d8u9fggW