This website will be kept temporarily active to provide a record of the successful partnership and work between BL Canada Quays, the London Borough of Southwark, and the local community of Rotherhithe.
The original British Land Canada Quays partnership at Canada Water has now dispersed following the successful delivery of the area formally known as Sites A and B. This has delivered 900 new homes including 234 affordable, a new civic heart with the creation of the Canada Water Library and Plaza, and the creation of new spaces and accessible routes.
The final phase of residential housing on Site A continues to be built by Barratt Homes scheduled for completion by 2014. Canada Quays Ltd is continuing in partnership with Southwark Council to deliver in the area. British Land as joint owners of Surrey Quays Shopping Centre is bringing forward plans to refurbish and extend the shopping centre.
Working with local schools
Bacon's College
and the Architecture Foundation
The second project was developed with Bacon’s College and the Architecture Foundation.
BLCQ worked with Bacon`s College in Rotherhithe, the nearest college to the Canada Water site. Bacons opened in 1991 as an all-ability City Technology College in new buildings on a brown-field site in the heart of London Docklands. In September 2007 the school changed its status and became an Academy with a specialism in Digital Media.
Albion Primary School
in association with Barratt Homes
The first project was developed with Albion Primary School in association with Barratt Homes.
Situated in the heart of Rotherhithe - a port since the 12th century or earlier, and a ship yard since Elizabethan times. The docks were closed and filled in the 1980’s and the land developed into riverside residential housing. There has been a school on the Albion Primary School site since Victorian times, with the present school being rebuilt in the 1960’s.
