Swan Housing Group is to submit plans for the redevelopment of the Robin Hood Gardens estate next week. A detailed planning application for the phase one regeneration of the Blackwall Reach area of Tower Hamlets is to be lodged with the council. Reviled by many but loved by architectural historians, the ‘brutalist’ Robin Hood Gardens - designed by husband and wife team Alison and Peter Smithson - have divided opinion for decades. Swan was selected by Tower Hamlets Council to develop the ...