The creative island: at home with the arts
London City Island & Goodluck Hope, London E14
OVERVIEW
What was once a deprived, industrial corner of east London, filled with warehouses and fenced off land, has been brought fully back to life in recent years. This is London City Island and Goodluck Hope, a pair of waterfront neighbourhoods that have transformed the Leamouth Peninsula into one of London’s most inspiring regeneration stories.
This previously isolated, overlooked patch of land is now a thriving community of over 2,500 homes. Here, creativity, culture, and connection define everyday life. Linked to the mainland by a striking red footbridge, ‘Islanders’ enjoy effortless access to the wider city while still feeling part of something exclusively special. In 2018 alone, London City Island won, among other prizes, the Evening Standard Homes and Property Awards Best Regeneration Project and Grand Prix, along with the RESI Award Development of the Year. Meanwhile Goodluck Hope was named New London Awards Best Unbuilt Space in the same year.
The Peninsula is a place where art and life intertwine: the English National Ballet is a cultural anchor for the area, lured from central London by Ballymore to take centre stage in an award-winning new home that’s surrounded by galleries, studios, restaurants and cafés (the ENB building was RIBA London’s Building of The Year 2021). The streets are filled with bold colour and texture, apartments and townhouses opening onto terraces that meet the waterside. From coffee on the balcony to walks along the dockside, there’s an uncommon sense of belonging and neighbourhood.
More than a place to live, London City Island and Goodluck Hope are living, breathing communities – vibrant new districts that celebrate connection, creativity, and the magic of life by the water.
LONDON CITY ISLAND
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