The hybrid proposals, submitted last month to Newham Council on behalf of the Impact Partnership joint venture between Lendlease and The Crown Estate, include four buildings offering affordable housing, student accommodation and co-living homes, alongside Build to Rent market housing.
The application includes detailed plans for 782 homes in four residential blocks with connecting podiums on Plots S3 and S10 of the Stratford Cross masterplan – the tallest rising to 41 storeys – together with outline designs for Plot S2 featuring 57,000m² of student accommodation in two buildings.
The scheme would also deliver a new public park, active ground-floor retail space and improved walking and cycling connections between Stratford station, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and surrounding neighbourhoods.
Subject to planning, the scheme forms the final phase of RSHP’s 11-building Stratford Cross masterplan, a mixed-use development between Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and Westfield Stratford City, formerly called Stratford International Quarter.
Other schemes in the masterplan include Alison Brooks’ 35 and 14-storey office towers, approved in 2022, Waugh Thistleton’s 15-storey mixed-use building handed consent in October 2024. Completed buildings include RSHP’s own Redman Place building and a pavilion by Acme, plus the 22-storey Turing building by AFK.
The proposals are intended to build on Stratford Cross’s existing commercial, educational and cultural uses, with the new residential neighbourhood centred around public space.
The new homes would comprise a mix of affordable and market housing, student accommodation and co-living, according to the developer.
The proposals follow a period of community engagement that ran from January to March 2026. The consultation material said the scheme was being developed in response to feedback calling for more green and public spaces.
Lendlease said the development would contribute to the local economy through jobs, training and community benefits. It said the Stratford Cross project to date had generated £13.9 million in local construction wages and supported more than 7,700 people through construction and end-use employment, apprenticeships and training initiatives.
The developer also said nearly 7,000 further people had been supported through voluntary, social, community and enterprise partnerships, with £18.4 million of social value generated across the development.
Jason Oliver, development director at Lendlease, said: ‘Stratford has evolved into one of London’s most dynamic destinations for culture, education, innovation and business. This final phase is about building on that success and creating a neighbourhood where people can live alongside the workplaces, institutions and attractions that have helped establish Stratford Cross as a unique part of east London.’
Subject to planning approval, construction is expected to begin in 2028, with the final phase expected to take approximately three years to complete.
The scheme is separate from the Mecanoo-designed International Quarter London North development for Hadley Property Group, which was approved in October 2024 at the final planning committee of the London Legacy Development Corporation.
That scheme, covering plots N20-N23, received planning approval in October 2024 and includes 672 homes and 909 student beds. Work would be expected to begin in 2028 and complete in 2031.
Project data
Start on site 2028 (expected subject to panning approval)
Completion Approx 2031, based on stated three-year construction period
Contract duration Three years approx
Architect Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Landscape architect Gillespies
Planning consultant Quod
Structural engineer Walsh Associates
M&E consultant AECOM
Quantity surveyor Equals Consulting
Principal designer Allford Hall Monaghan Morris