Southwark scheme features 52-storey resi block and sister office tower
Plans by Wilkinson Eyre to redevelop a prime central London site near the South Bank have been put out to consultation.
The plans, drawn up for developer Black Pearl, feature a 52-storey, 178.5m residential tower and a 33-floor office block by Brisac Gonzales Architects, as well as three other blocks that include a medium-rise hotel and affordable housing.
The office block is earmarked for a plot on Blackfriars Road, to the south of Simpson Haugh鈥檚 under-construction One Blackfriars tower.
The taller 227-home residential residential tower would be further to the west and front onto Stamford Street.
Black Pearl said the resi block would add 鈥渁 unique new signature building鈥� to the London skyline 鈥渨hich sits comfortably within the emerging cluster of towers鈥�.
The 548-room hotel and 64-home affordable-housing block are earmarked for a strip of land stretching south from Stamford Street along Paris Garden, and creating a new public space connecting with the grounds of Christ Church to the south.
Black Pearl said the scheme would also include around 2,966 sq m of new retail space at the base of the proposed new buildings.
The site already has planning permission for a 23-storey office block and a 42-storey residential tower, also by Wilkinson Eyre, granted at appeal in 2009.
Black Pearl said a planning application for the new proposals would be submitted 鈥渟hortly鈥�.
The area has been a hive of activity in recent years with AHMM鈥檚 19-storey development at 240 Blackfriars Road opening last year while KPF completed a scheme to add a further 11 floors to Richard Seifert鈥檚 30-storey South Bank Tower, formerly the King鈥檚 Reach tower, completed earlier this year. And demolition work to tear down the mid-rise Ludgate House, which was opened in 1989 by former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, is expected to be completed next spring ahead of a 49-storey tower PLP going up in its place.
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