A major scheme in Tower Hamlets has been recommended for approval – which will see Mount Anvil and One Housing deliver a 31-storey residential scheme.
The project, which previously obtained consent for a 26-storey tower, has been increased in size with HTA Design drawing up plans to add five additional storey’s to the build.
24 homes and flats will be demolished on the 0.3 hectare site – being replaced by 202 new properties.
Around half of the properties will be affordable and managed by housing association One Housing. Around 700,000 sq m of creative workspace is also planned.
Recommending the scheme for approval at next week’s strategic development committee meeting, Tower Hamlets planning officers said the latest incarnation of the proposals would deliver an additional 54 homes on the site.
“The proposed housing accommodation would be of high quality, with the creation of varied type of accommodation,” they said.
“From a design perspective, the proposal positively responds to its local context through the delivery of a unique and high-quality design in a tall building zone. A single residential tower of 31 storeys is placed centrally within the site whilst lower elements are proposed along Byng and Manilla Streets.
“Of particular interest are three storey dwellinghouses along Byng Street which provide an attractive streetscape.”
Officers said all of the affordable-rent homes in the scheme would be in the low-rise blocks, the townhouses or the lowest storeys of the main tower.
Their report said 49% of the scheme’s homes would be “affordable”, measured by habitable room. A total of 108 of the new units – some of them studios – will be for market sale or rent, 36 homes will be “intermediate” tenure, and 58 homes will be for “affordable” rent.
Tower Hamlets’ strategic development committee meets from 6.30pm on 8 June to consider the application.
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