The former Job Centre site enjoys canal frontage onto Limehouse Cut and is effectively surrounded on three sides by a Conservation area. North of the cut is already quite extensively redeveloped with residential apartment buildings up to 8 storeys in height whereas our side of the canal still retains some of the former warehouses now converted into residential.

As such our scheme design seeks to take it's design inspiration from the better local brick warehouses by introducing a lighter brick grid to the facades. The massing is broadly split into an 8 storey building facing the canal with a smaller more contextual 5 storey elements facing the conservation area and lower immediate buildings. The site layout and proposed access is off an enhanced pedestrian link between Dod Street and the canal towpath which forms an important new public realm.