Council signs off plans for 43- and 28-storey towers on warehouse site
Squire & Partners’ plans for two residential towers in the Docklands providing nearly 1,000 homes have been approved by Tower Hamlets council.
The Mastmaker Court scheme consists of a 43-storey tower containing 843 co-living apartments and a neighbouring 28-storey tower containing 153 affordable homes.
The development has been designed for Pirin Limited and its development partner Fifth State, with the project team also including landscape architect Churchman Thornhill Finch.
The scheme will replace a car park and two existing warehouses on the Isle of Dogs, one of which had formerly been used as an alternative provision school.
Along with its two towers, the scheme will also provide a public park, community centre and replacement education space for up to 100 children.
Tower Hamlets’ planning officers, recommending the scheme for approval ahead of the council’s planning committee meeting yesterday, said the scheme would regenerate an “underused and unwelcoming” site.
While officers admitted there would be “major adverse” loss of daylight to some nearby properties, they said the overall benefits of the scheme would be “significant”.
The site is close to the southern edge of the cluster of towers in Canary Wharf and is bordered to its west by mostly low-rise housing.
However, the site lies within the council’s Isle of Dogs and South Poplar Opportunity Area, which has been earmarked for densification.
Other firms working on the project include Stace on costs, Walsh on civils and structures, DP9 on planning,, the Townscape Consultancy on townscape and heritage, Wintech on facades and RWDI on wind.
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