Key Details

Overview

Empress Works is a canal-side mixed-use development near Broadway Market in Bethnal Green, Hackney, London E2.

New Homes
The scheme offered 55 1, 2 and 3 bedroom warehouse-style apartments and 7,000 sq ft of new commercial space fronting the Regents Canal.

Amenities
- Concierge
- Rooftop terrace
- Gym

The Classic Cottages
The two Victorian and Regency cottages will be rebuilt and will contain five new homes.

Office Space
The development includes 8,000 sq ft of office space. Five units range from 686 sq ft to 1,722 sq ft in size, providing premises for sale or to let that are ideal for creative businesses such as Food & Beverage operators, marketing agencies, retailers or leisure brands.

History

The site has been used for industrial purposes, including a mill and glass bottle factory in the past.

2021 April - HG Construction hands over the main building with 53 apartments at Empress Works to Aitch Group. The Regency and Victorian cottages are in the final stages of development.

2021 March - Aitch Group launches commercial premises for sale or to let.

2020 February - Work starts on site.

2018 April - Planning permission granted for the redevelopment.

2016 - Amended development: Demolition of existing single-storey commercial buildings, with the retention, restoration, external alteration and residential conversion of the existing Regency and Victorian Cottages, together with the erection of three linked blocks of 4, 5 and 8 storeys to provide 51 residential dwellings (Use Class C3), with associated private and communal amenity space, cycle parking and refuse storage, and 461sqm of dual-use office/community floorspace (Use Class B1/D1). Tower Hamlets ref. no PA/16/03773.

Formerly known as Empress Coachworks and Corbridge Crescent.