JAAA Hale Wharf

The site is located on the River Lea and is surrounded by a large amount of green areas, river walkways and new developments for both residential and commercial uses. Located at an intersection with Ferry Lane, the site entrance gives safer vehicle access to the site and the new residential community.

The proposal seeks to integrate and highlight the opportunities of the existing Tottenhale context. Hale Wharf is elongated along the north-south axis. The landscape proposal seeks to utilize the length of the site and the varying landscape 'rooms' that occur within the residential precinct. The western side of the site provides for an outstanding potential for a new refined urban waterfront for Tottenhale. This edge facilitates a dual way access for vehicles and pedestrians and a new timber seating and waterside quay edge for recreational and leisure purposes. A new bridge across the locks links Hale Wharf with neighboring precincts and transport routes. Further, a new jetty and three barges are located along this edge, promoting an increase in commercial use for the waterway.
The eastern side of the site reinforces the potential to rehabilitate the ecological conditions of the site. New plantings of river vegetation and stabilization of the concrete bank allow for an intensification of new flora habitats to flourish.
View lines between the built structures highlight the small mews and entrance areas for private use. These view lines also provide links to 'The Paddock' where a removal of 1/3 of the existing vegetation and replanting of nectar rich tree species, will allow for wild like corridors to be created and ecological diversity to be increased.