Redevelopment of Greenwich peninsula in east London required repair or renewal of over 2 km of the mostly steel sheet-piled frontage to the River Thames and its extensive low-tide beaches. A range of options was examined to improve the river-edge environment, including cladding the existing wall in timber, reducing its height or removing it completely and replacing it with stepped terraces featuring aquatic and other planting. All were tried, resulting in extensive lengths of ecological terraces complementing a new river walk along the physically stronger yet visually softer bank. The project is now being promoted as a model for future environmental improvements to the Thames and other urban rivers.
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