Architecture PLB has won planning permission for a tweaked version of a 24-storey student-tower scheme, earmarked for a 0.23ha City-fringe site near Aldgate.

Members of Tower Hamlets council’s strategic development committee approved the proposals for the 913-bed scheme, created for Unite Students, a stone’s throw from TP Bennett’s 34-storey Nido Spitalfields student tower.

The scheme will also deliver 430sq m of exhibition space for excavated remains of a 16^th-century inn and theatre that once occupied the site, 120sq m of incubator space for start-up businesses and 1,380sq m of office space.

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