Tower Hamlets rejects Make’s Canary Wharf skyscraper

13th October 2017

Tower Hamlets Council’s strategic development committee has rejected Make Architects’ revised plans for a residential tower block at 225 Marsh Wall on the Isle of Dogs, even though a report from the authority’s planning officers recommended it be given the go-ahead. The skyscraper, designed on behalf of Cubitt Property Holdings, would have stood 46 storeys tall, 20m lower than the originally-intended 55 floors, housing 332 apartments, with 25% set aside as affordable housing. It also proposed 810 sq m of community or office floorspace, and 79 sq m of flexible retail, restaurant and community facilities. The scheme was rejected, however, on the grounds of excessive scale and height; with a density of 3,354 habitable rooms per hectare, it was well above the London Plan’s maximum of 1,100 per hectare.

Architects’ Journal (11/10/2017)