Croydon council has picked a team led by We Made That and including Hawkins Brown to create a mixed-use masterplan for the redevelopment of commercial and industrial space at Purley Way, an area of the south London borough centred around the A23 trunk road and an industrial and retail park.

The practices beat a rival bid led by Maccreanor Lavington to the project to deliver “intensified” industrial uses in the 140ha blueprint area as well as a “step change” in mixed-use and residential development.

Purley Way could accommodate up to 12,000 new homes over the next 20 years, according to figures in an interim sustainability appraisal of the Croydon local plan review put together for the council by Aecom last year.

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