Wood Wharf Planning Application Filed

Wood Wharf Planning Application Filed

Published on 30-06-2008 by Skyscrapernews.com
A massive planning application has been filed for Wood Wharf on the eastern edge of Canary Wharf in London by the Wood Wharf Partnership, a joint venture between British Waterways, the Canary Wharf Group, and Ballymore Properties Limited.

With proposals for four new skyscrapers, it features 460,864 square metres of office space in six buildings creating 25,000 new jobs and 1,668 new apartments for 2,500 inhabitants in seven residential buildings all masterplanned by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners.

Running on a central axis through the site will be a canopied high street with plenty of ground floor retail around it as it runs directly from Churchill Place to a new landscaped park in the east, a specific requirement placed on the project by local council, Tower Hamlets.

A 220 bedroom hotel and a further 120 serviced apartments are also planned plus 644 spaces for car parking and over 2,000 for bicycles and perhaps most interestingly, what are described as "floating eco islands".

The building heights step down from a pinnacle on the western side of the site next to Canary Wharf to their lowest points on the eastern end. There will be numerous skyscrapers including the tallest W07B which will be 206 metres above AOD, W07C which will be 160 metres AOD, plus W02 that will be 192.92 metres and W06 at 199.9 metres AOD.

Demolition work is scheduled to begin in January 2009 with construction following in May of that year. Unsurprisingly given the scale of the project, completion isn't scheduled for a whole decade later in 2019.

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