Stirling prize winner to design Olympic legacy housing

This year's RIBA Stirling Prize winner, Mikhail Riches Architects, has been chosen to design new homes on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London.

Mikhail Riches Architects – which won the Stirling Prize for its Goldsmith Street social housing earlier this month – is one of seven practices chosen by the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) to draw up plans for the Pudding Mill neighbourhood south of the former Olympic Stadium and close to Stratford High Street.

Practices will work on the neighbourhood's Bridgewater site which will host around 600 homes along with community facilities and retail.

The neighbourhood's Pudding Mill Lane site will feature 900 units, including 40 homes for older people, and 36,000m² of employment space along with health and community facilities.

LLDC executive director of development Rosanna Lawes said: "Pudding Mill will be a thriving new neighbourhood on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and we're determined to build high-quality new homes and significant commercial space, generating jobs and homes across a variety of tenures, affordable and for sale which cater for everybody. We'll continue to work closely with people in the area as we develop our plans with our design teams, ahead of a planning application submission next year."

Pudding Mill is the latest phase of legacy housing. The first phase, known as Chobham Manor is still under construction. Plans for the second phase – known as East Wick and Sweet Water – were unveiled four years ago.

The homes at Pudding Mill will be 40 per cent more affordable and split between London Affordable Rent, London Living Rent and Shared Ownership.