The Mayor of London's announcement of a £100m investment into the Silvertown Partnership marks a pivotal moment for one of London's most ambitious regeneration sites which the Prior + Partners’ team has been working on since 2019.
Mayor Sadiq Khan has confirmed that the Greater London Authority will become a partner in the Silvertown Partnership, joining Lendlease and The Crown Estate to deliver 7,000 new homes on the 60-acre Royal Docks site in Newham. Around 1,000 homes are expected to be under construction by 2028, with the first phase already underway.
The investment was announced during the Mayor’s trade mission to Singapore and Japan and represents one of the largest commitments made by any Mayor of London to a single development site. This marks a significant step towards City Hall becoming an active developer, intervening in London’s land market to maximise affordable housing delivery and accelerate the speed of building, modelled on Singapore’s state-led approach to housing delivery.
As one of Prior + Partners’ founding projects, this is an important milestone for our team and collaborators. Over the past six years, we have led the masterplanning for Silvertown, seeking to reintegrate a site fenced off from public access for over 40 years, and to give it a bold new identity rooted in its industrial heritage.
The revised masterplan, which secured unanimous planning approval from Newham Council in 2025, sets out a vision for 7,000 homes across five distinct neighbourhoods, 1,800 of which will be affordable. The scheme brings together new cultural and leisure spaces, creative employment hubs, and a network of public realm and waterfront access that will open the dock edges to the public for the first time. With historic structures including Grade II-listed Millennium Mills and Silo D being central to the scheme’s character and identity.
Find out more about the project and partnership here.
