Karakusevic Carson Architects has won council backing for its proposals to demolish four 1960s tower blocks on an estate in south-east London for replacement with a new scheme with more homes.

Its proposals for the Ledbury Estate, off the Old Kent Road in Southwark, will deliver 340 new homes across six blocks ranging in height from five to 22 storeys.

Serious structural and fire-safety concerns about the four existing 14-storey blocks on the split site emerged in 2017. Gas supplies were removed from the properties when it was discovered that strengthening work on the panel-system blocks that should have been carried out to avoid the risk of a Ronan Point-type collapse had not been carried out.

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