Tanner Street Barking – Peter Barber
August 17th, 2011
More cogwheel toothed grey rendered pseudo Mediterranean terraced housing by Barber. Like Donnybrook it also has next to no defensible space for the most part. 
I have some sympathy for the residents of the strip that backs onto the railway line because in addition to that they have a busy road or through route in front of their houses. Once again, where do the children play?
Photos at Flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/singleaspect/sets/72157627544764988/
This is the RIBA take on it from their online book:-
Barking falls within the area of the Thames Gateway and has ambitions over the next 15–20 years to build 7,500 dwellings in the town centre and a further 10,000 on the Barking Reach riverside site. A start has been made with development at Tanner Street for the East Thames Housing Group by a partnership of architects Peter Barber Associates and Jestico + Whiles.
The scheme follows on from Peter Barber’s earlier Donnybrook scheme and replaces 3 six storey slab blocks that have proved prohibitively expensive to repair and were beset with social problems. The 165 new apartments and houses are laid out as a network of street housing with tightly packed terraces built hard up to the back edge of footpath.
The space across the street is reduced in places to as little as 9m (30 ft) but this does not appear oppressive because of the light reflected from the white [grey – Ed.] rendered walls and the recessed terraces at first floor level. At the western edge of the scheme is a nine storey tower designed by Jestico + Whiles which forms a landmark at a square where a number of roads meet.
There is a wide range of house types in the scheme from three storey, four bedroom town houses to one and two bedroom apartments in two storey terraces. Apartments have usable open space in the form of rear patios at ground floor level or recessed terraces at first floor overlooking the streets.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/28423147/RIBA-book-of-british-housing
Q.What was there before?
A. Three six storey slab blocks.
That’s one to treasure!
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Hello. I see the images of the three blocks of flats that used to be there before. I was wondering if you have more pictures of them that are not in satellite view. I used to live in one of these blocks as a child and tried looking everywhere online for them pictures of them. But there seems to be no recollection of them being there.