STEALTHY CONSERVATION ACTION SAVES LEA VALLEY GEM

摘要

Sugar House Lane in Stratford, east London, is an industrial patch of land below the Olympic Park. It is named after the gently curving road that bisects the centre of the site, which leads to a Victorian sugar-processing plant. With its chimney stacks, cobbled roads and yards it is, says Eleanor Fawcett of Design for London (DfL), 'one of a handful of areas in the in the Lower Lea Valley with historic merit'. But, unlike Fish Island to the north, Leamouth to the south and the adjacent Three Mills film studios, all recognised by Newham stakeholders, including the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation (LTGDC), Transport for London, Lower Lea Valley Parks, DfL and Newham Council, last November.