Building / block / estate
Explorers Court
Address
Virginia Quay, 5 Newport Avenue, Blackwall, London E14 2EB
Local Authority
Tower Hamlets
Storeys / height
Cladding
Owner / Landlord
Original design architect
NOT FOUND. Goddard Manton is a plausible candidate given Pierhead Lock but there is nothing to support it - do not use it. Completion within 1999-2005, developer BDW/Barratt
Original consent ref/date
Remediation ref/date
Certificate of lawfulness (Tower Hamlets)
Remediation lead
Kier - agent Chris Wright, Kier House, Windward Drive, Speke, Liverpool L24 8QR, on the certificate of lawfulness for proposed remedial work to external cladding. CONTRACTOR, not a designer. Works 09/05/2022 to 16/09/2023, client One Housing Group
Litigation
YES - one of the five in BDW v Ardmore. CONFIDENTIAL ARBITRATION, no award
Source / Evidence / Links
- (Other remediation) Considerate Constructors; [2025] EWHC 434 (TCC)
- Confidence: None on architect
- Workbook source(s): Other remediation (row 54)
- https://www.constructionmap.info/site/120046/explorers-court
- https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/tcc/2025/434