East Ham Gasworks, London

Newham Council

Client St William

A new public park, sports facilities and residential neighbourhood of around 600 homes.

Over 100 people from the local community attended an activity packed Community Co-design Day at St Paul’s Church on Saturday 31 January 2026, to help shape the vision for East Ham Gasworks. The report back presentation, which includes the emerging vision, can be seen in the video below or downloaded as a pdf from the bottom of the page.

Community Co-design Day

During the Co-design Day, people were able to post comments on a giant wall map, sit down with the design team to draw ideas, tour the site boundary and take part in lots of other fun and interactive activities for all age groups throughout the day.

Topics and ideas that were discussed included:

– Bigger picture, finding out what’s good and bad about the local area.

– Landscape and open space including parks, play spaces, sports facilities and where these could be located.

– Ground floor uses such as shops, cafes, and other community facilities missing from the local area.

– Access and safety including routes through and out of the site, cycle parking, overlooking, and lighting.

People could also get involved online via the interactive map easthamgasworks.jtpengages.co.uk

Next Steps

Following the Community Co-design Day, the design team will move forward to prepare an outline planning application for the site, with submission to Newham Council in summer 2026.

Background

The site has a rich history of industrial and sporting uses and is now owned by St William. The western part of the site is partly occupied by a car maintenance and repair service provider, with the rest of the site currently inaccessible to the public, due to contamination which currently exists on site. For more information, please refer to the Co-design Background Exhibition, from the downloads below.