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ROBIN Hood Gardens will soon be removed from the Poplar skyline, following the Government's decision not to list the estate last week.
The 214-unit landmark will make way for English Partnerships' Blackwall Reach scheme, which will feature up to 3,000 new homes.
In a special extended report for wharf.co.uk, we look at what the future holds for residents of the 1970s brutalist building, and what plans are on the table to find new homes for the people at the centre of the debate.
BLACKWALL'S Robin Hood Gardens estate will be demolished after the Government chose not to protect the structure.
Culture minister Margaret Hodge backed residents and English Heritage in refusing to list the 1970s brutalist housing development, leaving the way open for English Partnerships to create a scheme for about 3,000 homes on the site.
ROBIN Hood Gardens has moved one step closer to demolition after English Heritage chose not to call for the listing of the Poplar estate.
The conservation group has decided not to recommend special status for the 1970s block, describing it as "neither innovative nor influential" and claiming it "fails as a place for human beings to live".
As the statutory adviser to the government, English Heritage's view will have a significant bearing on the culture minister Margaret Hodge's final decision at the end of June. If Robin Hood Gardens is not listed, it will be demolished to make way for up to 3,000 new homes as part of the Blackwall Reach development.
A CONTROVERSIAL 1970s estate is still heading for demolition despite a campaign to save it.
Tower Hamlets is sticking to its guns over plans for the Blackwall Reach regeneration scheme, which would mean the end for Robin Hood Gardens.
Cabinet members have re-affirmed their decision to approve a rough framework plan for the scheme, which will see up to 3,000 homes spring up north of Aspen Way.
The development just to the east of Canary Wharf would involve the destruction of the ‘brutalist’ estate, a move which has pitched architects and locals into heated debate.
Another part of the huge Greenwich Peninsula regeneration has fallen into place.
Greenwich Council has approved a scheme for 207 homes occupying a prominent plot on the 190-acre development site – one of London’s largest regeneration projects.
Over the next 15 years the area will see 10,000 new homes, the creation of 24,000 permanent jobs, a new business district, leisure facilities, parks and open spaces.
ONE of the world’s most famous architects has backed it – but it seems a 1970s ‘brutalist’ housing estate next to Canary Wharf will soon be history unless it is listed.
The Wharf revealed how Robin Hood Gardens estate in Blackwall was under threat as part of a large regeneration scheme, and now demolition has come a step closer.
Last Wednesday (March 5) Tower Hamlets Council’s cabinet gingerly approved a rough framework plan for the Blackwall Reach project, which would see up to 3,000 homes rise from the rubble of the 1970s structure.
English Heritage has not yet decided whether to recommend the listing of the building to the Government.
