Gort Scott’s Olympic Park blueprint set for approval
By Jim Dunton2022-10-20T06:00:00
Proposals worked up with Aecom and 5th Studio will ramp up housing numbers by 21% at Abba Arena site
Outline plans to intensify housing delivery on part of the Olympic Park site are set to be approved by the London Legacy Development Corporation.
A new masterplan for the Pudding Mill Lane area at the south of the park – drawn up for LLDC by Gort Scott, 5th Studio and Aecom – proposes delivering 116,553sq m of new residential floorspace on the 5.1ha plot in three courtyard blocks and a 25-storey central tower.
Papers provided to members of the LLDC’s planning applications committee acknowledge that the masterplan does not contain a fixed number of new units. But they suggest the figure would be 948, based on the amount of floorspace and requirements for a mix of housing sizes.
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