New images of how the south bank of the Thames will look following the completion of PLP’s huge Bankside Yards mixed-use scheme have been released.

The development will deliver new office and retail space – along with 600 new homes – in blocks up to 49 storeys high on a 2.2ha site that straddles the Thameslink line connecting Bedford with Brighton.

BD’s former Ludgate House base occupied part of the site, while brutalist Sampson House – a former Lloyds Bank cheque-clearing centre designed by Fitzroy Robinson & Partners – is being demolished to clear the eastern part of the plot.

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