Bartlett Park

Location: Tower Hamlets
Client: Bartlett Park Steering Group
Date: 2010

Bartlett Park Steering Group appointed us to develop a masterplan for Bartlett Park in Poplar, near the famous Lansbury Estate. The park suffers from a lack of definition and contains little facility for sport or leisure. The proposed masterplan seizes the opportunity of adjacent housing redevelopment and reorganisation to give the park a new identity and character and make it safer and more secure.

An ‘arc of activities’ along the north and east sides will reinforce and contain the existing quality of openness. A ‘circular’ path, reinforced by new landforms, creates a route to unify the park and lead to facilities and delightful smaller spaces around the park edge, including a pedestrian canal side promenade. The proposals include strategies for biodiverse planting.

‘The response you gave to what is a difficult site and brief was both sympathetic to the site and to the needs of the community as a whole....well organised, coherent....and accessible to all....[and] showing an intelligent design understanding of the potential of the site and an understated design approach which was absolutely in keeping with the aspirations of the local community.'

Bartlett Park Steering Group