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Wood Wharf consortium submit massive planning application for 17 acre site in Docklands
The Wood Wharf Partnership has submitted outline plans to Tower Hamlets Council for a mixed-use waterside development adjacent to Canary Wharf.
The 17acre site will be transformed into a brand new urban quarter - with new homes, new jobs and new retail and leisure facilities set within a waterside environment, though it will take 10 years to build.
With proposals for four new skyscrapers, it features 460,864 square metres of office space in six buildings and 1,668 new apartments for 2,500 inhabitants in seven residential buildings all masterplanned by Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners.
Running on a central axis through the site will be a canopied high street with plenty of ground floor retail around it as it runs directly from Churchill Place to a new landscaped park in the east, a specific requirement placed on the project by Tower Hamlets Council.
A 220 bedroom hotel and a further 120 serviced apartments are also planned plus 644 spaces for car parking and over 2,000 for bicycles and perhaps most interestingly, what are described as "floating eco islands".
The scheme is being developed by the Wood Wharf Limited Partnership (WWLP), a joint partnership between British Waterways, Ballymore Properties and Canary Wharf Group. GVA Grimley is advising for the developers.
The 17acre site will be transformed into a brand new urban quarter - with new homes, new jobs and new retail and leisure facilities set within a waterside environment, though it will take 10 years to build.
With proposals for four new skyscrapers, it features 460,864 square metres of office space in six buildings and 1,668 new apartments for 2,500 inhabitants in seven residential buildings all masterplanned by Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners.
Running on a central axis through the site will be a canopied high street with plenty of ground floor retail around it as it runs directly from Churchill Place to a new landscaped park in the east, a specific requirement placed on the project by Tower Hamlets Council.
A 220 bedroom hotel and a further 120 serviced apartments are also planned plus 644 spaces for car parking and over 2,000 for bicycles and perhaps most interestingly, what are described as "floating eco islands".
The scheme is being developed by the Wood Wharf Limited Partnership (WWLP), a joint partnership between British Waterways, Ballymore Properties and Canary Wharf Group. GVA Grimley is advising for the developers.
Mon, 7th Jul 2008