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9th December 2016
Tower Hamlets Council has published a Draft Local Plan, setting out how the borough will meet its need for housing, employment and amenities over the next 15 years. The blueprint aims to build a minimum of 10,000, and potentially up to 26,350, new homes on the Isle of Dogs and in south Poplar. Fifteen key sites have been identified, including Billingsgate Market, Hercules Wharf, and Clove Crescent, the latter pair situated close to East India Dock. Trilogy Property has already unveiled plans to transform the East India locale, by building a 650,000 sq ft tech and start-up campus and creating Europe’s longest freshwater outdoor swimming pool. "I chose the area by looking at where the young, energetic, bright, innovative people are going to live”, Robert Wolstenholme, founder of Trilogy Property, comments.
The Wharf (07/12/2016) Evening Standard (07/12/2016)
9th December 2016
Developer Cubitt Property Holdings and Make, Ken Shuttleworth’s architectural practice, have submitted new plans to Tower Hamlets Council for a residential tower at 225 Marsh Wall, on the Isle of Dogs. A prior application was recommended for refusal, on the grounds that it sought to “maximise, not optimise the development potential of the site”; the new proposal lops eight storeys off the tower, for a 48-storey structure to include 336 flats, 810 sq m of community floorspace, and 79 sq m of restaurant or retail space. The new scheme is expected to go to committee in March 2017.
Architects’ Journal (05/12/2016)
A former Victorian workhouse infirmary on the Mile End Road is being redeveloped into a walled estate of 252 homes, split between properties for private buyers, shared-ownership, and rental. The St Clements development backs on to Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park Nature Reserve, and is just a few minutes’ walk away from the Central Line Tube station. Newly-built apartments on the grounds start at £440,000.
Evening Standard (30/11/2016)
9th December 2016
Zooplahas examined the impact on house prices in so-called "hipster hotspots” which attract young, creative upwardly-mobile people. Researchers found that six of the top ten UK hipster hotspots are in London, including Shoreditch, Stratford and Stoke Newington. Dalston in East London was identified as the top hipster hotspot, with property prices there having typically increased by nearly 60% over the past five years, now averaging £633,593.
The Daily Telegraph (05/12/2016)
9th December 2016
Annual property price growth has risen for the first time in eight months despite a recent survey indicating a dip in consumer confidence, according to the latest Halifaxindex. Home values were up 6% on a yearly basis in November and on a monthly basis prices edged up 0.2%. The average property value last month was £218,002, according to the index.
Financial Times (07/12/2016)
2nd December 2016
Just one month after going on sale, over a third of the apartments at Spire London, at West India Quay, have already been reserved. The £800m, 67-storey tower will be the tallest residential structure in western Europe on completion in 2020, at 771 ft - level with One Canada Square, and just 245ft shorter than The Shard, up the river at London Bridge. Housing 861 apartments, the Greenland-developed Spire not only offers such extravagances as a concierge, infinity pool, and cocktail bar, but has also been “future-proofed”, ready to integrate new technologies as they emerge. Remaining apartments are available from £740,000.
Evening Standard (01/12/2016)