skip to main content

Chisenhale Road

Chisenhale Road is a canal-side site in Bow West, comprising part of a former brewery currently leased to Chisenhale Art Gallery. The approximately 480 sq m, three-storey industrial building accommodates Chisenhale Dance Studio on its upper floor, while the remaining space is vacant and partially dilapidated. The site also includes approximately 525 sq m of external space fronting the Hertford Union Canal. Proposals will respond to the site’s cultural and industrial heritage, reprovide the dance studio and explore opportunities to improve the canal frontage. The site lies within the Driffield Road Conservation Area, and the existing building is considered a non-designated heritage asset.

Chisenhale Road

Commercial Opportunity

  • 33 homes - 100% social rent

  • Erection of 4-6 storey building behind retained facades

  • Partial facade retention of existing building (south, east & west retained)

  • Demolition of north facade, all internal floors, structure and roof

  • Canal-side amenity space

  • Level 04 amenity roof terrace

  • ASHPs and PV panels on roof

  • Ground-floor dance studio (Chisenhale Dance Space)

Delivery considerations

  • Facade retention limits direct street access to site

  • Consideration of noise to Chisenhale Gallery during works 

  • Relations of existing substation required

  • Potential reuse of demolition materials (eg. bricks for planters/finishes)

  • Insultation of retained facades with thermal plaster (or similar)

  • Ground needs to be levelled across the site

  • Canal along northern boundary

View opportunity - check back soon

Last updated 07 August 2026