ANTHONY PALMER

Walking the Leaway:

The Leaway is an ongoing project to join up existing River Lea pathways into a continuous walking and cycling route from the London Olympic Park to the River Thames. As a sustainable transport route it is a catalyst to regenerating an industrialised landscape, acting as a backbone of green infrastructure to new parklands and urban development. See the Lea River Park design manual.

As a piecemeal project, the Leaway will likely take many more years to complete and so I spent early 2016 Walking the Leaway to look at this landscape of transition. The order of photographs start from where the Waterworks River exits the Olympic Park and follow the paths south towards Leamouth.


Leaway path (unopen) across the Waterworks River (April 2016)

Leaway path (unopen) across the Waterworks River (April 2016)

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The Leaway (unopen) along the Waterworks River, Stratford (April 2016)

Leaway path (unopen) across the Waterworks River (April 2016)

The Channelsea River at Three Mills (March 2016)

Channelsea River at Three Mills (March 2016)

Low tide at Three Mills (April 2016)

Low tide at Three Mills (April 2016)

Rail bridge crossing the Channelsea and Lea rivers (March 2016)

Rail bridge north of Bow Locks (March 2016)

River Lea south of Bow Locks (March 2016)

River Lea south of Bow Locks (March 2016)

Footbridge across Bow Locks (March 2016)

Footbridge across Bow Locks (March 2016)

Proposed location of Cody Wilds (March 2016)

Passing the Cody Wilds (March 2016)

Bow Creek towards Cody Dock (April 2016)

Cody Wilds towards Cody Dock (April 2016)

Priors Croft section of the Leaway from Cody Dock (April 2016)

Cable bridge from Electra Wharf to Poplar Reach (April 2016)

Priors Croft section of the Leaway from Cody Dock (April 2016)

Riverside walk (unopen) from Electra Wharf to  Canning Town (April 2016)

Bridges over Bow Creek to the Ecology Park (March 2016)

Bridges from Silvocea Way to Bow Creek Ecology Park (March 2016)

Bow Creek Ecology Park (April 2016)

Bow Creek Ecology Park (April 2016)

Leamouth Peninsular development and new bridge to Canning Town Riverside (April 2016)

Re-development of the Leamouth Peninsular (April 2016)

Residential development of the Leamouth Peninsular (April 2016)

Crossrail site on the proposed Exotic Wild (December 2015)

Crossrail site on the proposed Limmo Park (December 2015)

High tide beside the Limmo Peninsular (April 2016)

Edge of the proposed Exotic Wild towards Leamouth (April 2016)

Construction of Instone Wharf at Leamouth (December 2015)

Orchard Place at the edge of the River Thames (April 2016)

Orchard Place (closed) looking south to the Dome (April 2016)

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