Proposals for 77 Marsh Wall site to include mixed-use podium
Plans are being developed for a 925-home scheme in Canary Wharf which would be one of London’s tallest residential towers.
The 220m tall 77 Marsh Wall scheme is being developed by Areli Group on behalf of British Airways Pension Trustees Limited and see homes delivered above a mixed-use podium.
Currently in early pre-planning, it would be Canary Wharf’s third tallest tower if built, behind the 235m One Canada Square and 233m Landmark Pinnacle.
A sketch of the tower, which is being designed by Patel Taylor, included as part of a first public consultation shows a tower consisting of three split floorplates of varying heights on the 0.47ha dockside site.
It would require the demolition of the site’s existing building, a 17-storey office block built in the early 1990s known as Sierra Quebec Bravo.
Areli said the building offers “very little in the way of benefits to the community” and that it wanted to maximise the “unique and exciting” potential of the waterfront site with new public spaces, shops and restaurants.
The podium would contain around 4,000sq m of retail, leisure and workspace along with a cinema and cycle parking under early plans aired in the public consultation.
Homes in the tower above the podium would be of a mix of tenures including shared ownership, build to rent, social rent, apart-hotel and co-living.
“We want to challenge traditional housing models and deliver the UK’s most exciting multi-tenure housing development, an outward-facing space that embraces the existing community,” Areli said.
The firm has also submitted a 26-page environmental impact assessment scoping report, drawn up by consultant Trium, to Tower Hamlets council ahead of the submission of a full planning application.
Other firms currently on the project team include planning consultant DP9 and communications firm Kanda Consulting.
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