Piercy secures planning for Clerkenwell scheme

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Mixed-use proposals will deliver boutique hotel, affordable homes and flexible workspace

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Piercy & Company has said it expects a hotel-led mixed-use scheme in the central London district of Clerkenwell to complete in two years after the project secured planning from Camden council.

The Vine Hill development, within the Hatton Garden conservation area, will be a short distance from the practice’s Turnmill office scheme – highly commended in BD’s 2016 Architect of the Year Awards.

Source: The affordable housing element of Piercy’s just-approved Vine Hill proposals

The affordable housing element of Piercy’s just-approved Vine Hill proposals

Vine Hill will deliver an eight-storey, 146-room boutique hotel, a new affordable housing block and the restoration and extension of the Victorian Ragged School building – which will deliver 2,300sq m of flexible workspace.

Practice founding director Stuart Piercy said the hotel design features a contemporary, but heavily textured, deep facade of folding cast masonry piers that would create a play of shadows, angles, glass and pigmented stone against views of the Ragged School’s historic and distinctive crenelated tower.

“This is a sensitive and important site in the heart of Clerkenwell and one of several new boutique hotels by Piercy & Company,” he said.

“The consent is for a complex programme of complementary uses of hotel, workspace and affordable homes. Each has a distinct character that helps the proposal sit within the varied and historic streetscape.”

Piercy added that the scheme’s affordable housing element would be delivered in a “tall thin block” featuring a three-bay brickwork façade that would offer apartments with dual and triple aspect views over the area.

The project is scheduled for completion in August 2021.