PRESS: The Times
Taking inspiration from a thriving regeneration project in London could give our capital a boost
The Times by Linda Daly
In the 1990s, Trinity Buoy Wharf, in east London, was an industrial wasteland of abandoned warehouses beside the Thames. The area, in Tower Hamlets, which was once bustling with maritime activity, appeared destined to be lost to dereliction for ever.
The London Docklands Development Corporation had other ideas. In 1998, it set up the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust with a 125-year lease. The trust brought in a private company Urban Space Management (USM), to regenerate the site.
USM wasn’t your regular developer. The company had been behind the creation of some of London’s hippest regeneration projects, including those at Camden Town and Spitalfields.