Livingston Eyre Associates were part of the design team for this new university campus. The team worked within the LDDC Urban Design framework. Livingston Eyre were closely involved in gaining Planning Approval, particularly in relation to the Royal Docks infrastructure, transport links, access, servicing, disabled access, parking, the dock edge and the requirements for tree planting along the Royal Albert Way.

Problems presented by this site included the huge scale of the open space and its relationship to the stunning expanse of dock and the aerial activity above London City Airport directly across the water. In addition a solution had to be found to overcome the contaminated site.

Complexities of site access, both pedestrian and vehicular, were also resolved together with local public transport links, to produce an integrated network of transport throughout the site.

The design of external spaces was developed in close co-operation with the architects and is generated by the form of the buildings; thus the strong grid of the Academic Buildings is clearly legible in the rectilinear form of the square and the spaces extending out to the dock, while, in contrast, the more free-flowing elliptical landscape around the residences responds to the circular form of these buildings.