Muse's Stroudley Walk takes Sustainable Places award at Build to Rent Awards 2026

Developer Muse has won the Sustainable Places and Healthy Homes Award at Love to Rent's 2026 Build to Rent Awards for Stroudley Walk, its 274-home regeneration scheme in Bromley-by-Bow delivered with housing association Poplar HARCA and the Greater London Authority (GLA).

Muse said the scheme was also highly commended in the Development of the Year category. The organiser's winners list places that commendation in a London sub-category of the award, in which Long Harbour was named the winner.

Love to Rent said the ceremony took place on Friday 23 October and was its fourth Build to Rent Awards. The winners list records the Sustainable Places and Healthy Homes Award as sponsored by Inside Housing Living.

Jonathan O'Neill, senior director at contractor McAleer & Rushe, said at the start of work on site: "We are excited to deliver a thriving new neighbourhood of all-electric homes".

The homes

Muse said Stroudley Walk was completed earlier this year and comprises 274 homes, of which half are affordable, including 82 for London Affordable Rent and 33 for shared ownership. McAleer & Rushe put the affordable total at 115 homes across the two tenures.

The partners differ slightly on the detail. Poplar HARCA and architect RM_A both put the affordable share at 51%, with Poplar HARCA measuring it by number of habitable rooms, while a Poplar HARCA article from the November 2024 topping out referred to 32 shared ownership apartments.

All 82 three- and four-bedroom family homes were delivered as affordable housing, Muse said, because a local needs assessment showed this was the type of housing most needed in the borough. RM_A said 40% of the homes are family homes, including ground-floor duplexes with private gardens.

Poplar HARCA co-designed two of the homes with families with neurodiverse children who now live in them, according to Muse. The developer said the sensory-friendly features were the first of their kind delivered by a public-private partnership.

The tower and the second staircase

RM_A said the scheme includes a 25-storey residential building and 300 sq m of commercial space. Muse said Upper East, the private sale tower, was among the first tall residential buildings in London to complete with a second staircase after the new requirement was introduced.

The regulations did not apply to Stroudley Walk at its stage of delivery, Muse said, but the developer chose to redesign the tower to include a second staircase for resident safety.

Alongside the homes, the scheme includes three ground-floor retail spaces, a community hub, a pocket park and a community courtyard, and has reinstated a pedestrian thoroughfare, according to Muse.

Delivery history

Poplar HARCA said the development followed the demolition of Warren House and 30-49 Stroudley Walk in 2022. RM_A said an earlier planning approval on the site had proved undeliverable but led to the existing buildings being vacated.

Construction began in 2023 with McAleer & Rushe as contractor. McAleer & Rushe's start-on-site announcement anticipated completion in winter 2025, Muse's project page later gave a target of spring 2026, and Poplar HARCA's project page now says construction was completed in summer 2026.

The scheme topped out at a ceremony on Wednesday 27 November 2024 attended by Deputy Mayor for Housing Tom Copley, Poplar HARCA said. The housing association added that more than 500 local people helped shape the plans, that shops, food outlets and services stayed open throughout construction, and that the residential buildings are named after East End women who campaigned for votes for women.

Muse is part of Morgan Sindall Group, which acquired AMEC Developments in 2007 and renamed the business Muse. Its regional teams are based in Birmingham, Leeds, London and Manchester.