Southwark council has approved Renzo Piano Building Workshop’s proposals to reconfigure the layout of the practice’s Shard Place tower, upping the number of flats it will include by almost 20%

The practice won planning consent for the 26-storey sister building to The Shard and Rupert Murdoch’s adjacent News Building in 2014. Work is well under way on the structure - once nicknamed the Shardette - which is being developed by Real Estate Management and Sellar Group.

Southwark’s original consent was for 148 apartments and 1,800sq m of flexible retail space at concourse level on London Bridge Street and St Thomas Street.

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