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@Oliver Schick
I wouldn't dream of shopping at Westfield Stratford City. It's an appalling development, incredibly misconceived. There's nothing wrong with the principle of developing a much larger town centre at Stratford, as it is undershooting its potential, but it should categorically not have been done by means of a complete disjunction between historically-grown public streets and a private development featuring 10,000 car parking spaces (Westfield somehow got away with this despite Stratford's very high PTALs; TfL tried very hard at the time to have the number of car parking spaces reduced but no dice). In terms of spatial structure, the development is absolute rubbish, not to mention the ghastly 'architecture'. It provides none of the connections that were needed in the area and is a gigantic step backwards. Newham failed to provide a cogent development plan for the area. We'll suffer from its 'legacy' for decades to come. A low point for London.