Canada Water

About half of Canada Dock was infilled and the Surrey Quays Shopping Centre built on top of it; the remainder was converted into the present lake and wildlife refuge.

[2] Following the earlier gentrification of the parts of Rotherhithe along the river, the extension[3] of the Jubilee line in 1999 moved the focus to the area immediately around Canada Water.

In 2018, architect Allies and Morrison submitted a masterplan for area's continued development, but some of the plans for tall buildings were revised after Historic England said the proposals would harm views of capital landmarks.

[6] Approved by Southwark Council in 2020, the masterplan was revised in 2025 to increase the height of some buildings due to fire safety requirements for second staircases.

This arrangement was put in place following research by the landscape architect Fraser Borwick, which revealed that ground water had historically been extracted to supply various industrial processes using wind power.