Wimshurst Pelleriti bags planning for ‘net zero’ flats twice height of council plan
By Jim Dunton2021-04-07T06:00:00
South London block reuses basement of former commercial unit to deliver 113 ’affordable’ homes
Wimshurst Pelleriti has been granted planning permission for a 20-storey residential tower in the centre of Sutton, south London, even though its proposals are twice the height specified by the local authority masterplan for the area.
Planning officers said the scheme, for 113 apartments ranging in size from studios to three-bed units, boasted design of an “exceptional standard” that justified its departure from Sutton’s town-centre masterplan. The document sanctioned eight to 10 storeys for the site.
The building reuses the existing basement structure of a commercial unit that occupied the Throwley Way site until 2014.
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