Studio Egret West and Coffey Architects are consulting on revised proposals for a £200m scheme to turn a semi-derelict former factory site in south-east London into new homes and workspace after a dramatic eleventh-hour listing derailed the original proposal.

The new plans contain significantly less affordable housing – possibly none at all – because developer U&I says the requirement to restore the former Siemens cable factory dramatically changes the scheme’s viability.

Plans for Faraday Works were originally submitted to Greenwich council in late 2019 but the scheme became unworkable in its original format when Historic England announced it was giving grade II listing to the only building on the 2.4ha site that had been slated for demolition.

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