The site, located in Plaistow, comprises Greengate House, a locally listed building dating from 1919, and a large disused backland car park. This redeveloped site provides 64 units of affordable housing for key worker groups.

The retention and conversion of the front 6m of Greengate House enables the building’s public presence to be maintained as a locally admired asset whilst the remainder of the building behind is demolished to make way for a new wing of accommodation within the original footprint. The rear of the site supports a low rise mews development in scale with a more suburban street frontage to the south.

The buildings are grouped around a central landscape courtyard to form a cohesive design addressing privacy, lighting and overlooking in relation to the neighbouring sites in a sensitive manner. Green roof technology and a biomass boiler are central to the site's environmental and renewable energy strategy.