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Transformation for a London dock
The Greater London Council, the world's largest body of its kind, has selected the Taylor Woodrow Group's £22 million plan for the re-development of historic St. Katharine Dock, London's most am- bitious re-planning since the Great Fire.
Work is scheduled to begin in 1971 on a 61⁄2 year target programme, on a 242-acre site (of which 10.4-acres are water).
The model photograph shows, left foreground, the Tower of London and Tower Bridge. Beyond is London's largest convention hotel with 776 rooms and convention hall for over 2,000 delegates. To the left, along the approach road to London Bridge (shown in a darker colour) is the Hardwick Ware-
house built in 1829 which is to be incorporated in the scheme - it will be refurbished and become the British Export Centre. Facing it across the inner basin is another warehouse built in 1860, to be converted into housing and a yacht club - the de- velopment will give London its first yacht marina, and the Chapel of St. Katharine to be built on the jetty behind the hotel, will link the site with the original hospice of St. Katharine, established in 1148.
Down river of the hotel will be Theatrevision, a vast entertainment complex with theatres, sound and television studios, linked to a floating bar and restaurant in the river. Further to the right are new facilities for 700 private and local authority houses, complete with schools and playgrounds, adjoining a sports centre with squash courts, swim- ming pool and gymnasium. The housing continues around the farthest basin and at top left is a shop- ping centre.
Today the resident population is nil. When all facilities are in use the population will be 10,000.
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Model of the new St. Katherine Dock in London
Far East BUILDER, March 1970
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