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SA02 - New Spitalfields Market

Proposed Site Allocation 

Comprehensive redevelopment to provide a new neighbourhood, including cultural, industrial, residential, nursery and complementary uses, and new public transport infrastructure including links to Ruckholt Road station. 


Site requirements

Development of the site should: 

  • Seek to optimise site capacity and deliver around 2,750 new homes 
  • Provide a significant cultural hub  
  • Provide a nursery 
  • Include provision for bus infrastructure on site 
  • Respond to the sensitive context of the Hackney Marsh 
  • Retain and enhance the existing woodland alongside the River Lea  
  • Support the delivery of a new station at Ruckholt Road 

 Development will be expected to provide replacement LSIS compliant industrial floorspace capacity and should look to provide an uplift. The reference capacity for reprovision only is 20,500 sqm. 

  • Proposals are required to be accompanied by a Masterplan, in line with Draft Local Plan Policy 30 and London Plan Policy E7, which should consider the entire site. 
  • A small part of the southern corner of the site bordering Ruckholt Road is Metropolitan Open Land. No buildings should be proposed on this part of the site. 

Development guidelines

Strategic cycle and pedestrian connections should be made through the site, linking to Hackney Marshes, Ruckholt Road and the new station with consideration of wider connectivity to Leyton Underground Station, the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and Lea Bridge Station. Connections should ensure accessibility for all. 

Development should: 

  • Provide a new significant public urban square with green amenity, play space and sustainable urban drainage linked to the cultural provision  
  • Provide a new significant green public park with an ecological focus  
  • Consider and mitigate the local impact of Eastway/ Ruckholt Road on air quality and noise pollution
  • Explore the significant opportunity for enhancement to on-site ecology and biodiversity including daylighting the culverted river, sustainable urban drainage, green ‘buffers’ and corridors, ‘wild’ public amenity, green roofs and tree planting 
  • Improve the River Lea habitat
  • Proposals could explore the potential for commercial, office and workspace to support a new neighbourhood and to help create a vibrant and distinctive place.
  • This site is identified as being in an area with potential for being part of a de-centralised energy network. Proposals should explore the role of the site as part of the future of the network.
  • Additional detail on the development guidelines for the site will be provided in a forthcoming SPD for the area. 

Placemaking Plan



The questions below respond to this site allocation only.

The Regulation 19 consultation only considers representations on the grounds of legal compliance, soundness and duty to consult.

Please Note: You will need to say why each modification will make the Local Plan legally compliant or sound. It will be helpful if you are able to put forward your suggested revised wording of any policy or text. Please be as precise as possible.

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