Hutchinson & Partners has received planning approval for a residential and retail development in Berlin’s Pankow district, marking the practice’s first planning consent in Germany.

Located on Hermann-Hesse-Strasse, the proposed development will replace a supermarket with a new 1,200m² retail unit, topped by four residential buildings.

The approval comes more than four years after the UK-based practice established a Berlin office, led by founder Ross Hutchinson and director Jörn Rabach, with the aim of expanding its UK experience in mixed-use developments into the German market.

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