Tech migration: well-connected new homes in Hackney Wick have Victoria Park as their 'back garden'

The largest recreational space to be created in Europe for 150 years, the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is one good reason to live near Stratford.

Another is established, lovely old Victoria Park, barely a mile away.

After a £12 million refurbishment that reinstated many original features, Victoria Park, one of London’s biggest at 212 acres, has two cafés, a boating lake and grassland, sports facilities, a pagoda and ornamental landscaping.

For many east Londoners it is a giant back garden, a leafy sanctuary amid densely populated streets and tower blocks.

The patch around the park has already acquired “village” status due to the cluster of independent shops, bars and restaurants that have sprouted up, and gentrification is spreading to neighbouring Hackney Wick, where major regeneration is attracting tecchies and creatives priced out of Shoreditch.

The Stack, in Barnabus Road, is one of the bold new apartment schemes rising in this well-connected district.

Prices from £395,000. Call Currell on 020 7226 6611.

Also check out The Foundry at Fish Island — 121 flats grouped around a central courtyard garden.

All of the homes have floor-to-ceiling windows, outside space and a communal terrace.

They’re by Weston Homes, a thoughtful developer. Prices from £399,950. Call 020 8985 5597.