Another Docklands tower approved

Planning permission has been granted for another tower block at London’s Canary Wharf development

Canary Wharf Group plc has been granted full planning permission by Tower Hamlets Council’s strategic planning committee for 1 Bank Street on the site of what used be known as Heron Quay. It has also got outline planning permission for 1 Park Place.

Designed by Kohn Pederson Fox (KPF), 1 Bank Street will be a curved 27-storey building, 146-metres high, with 700,000 sq ft of office space, including three levels of trading floors, a retail unit at ground level, a free-standing retail kiosk on South Dock Promenade, public realm, planting and landscaping and basement car and cycle parking. Société Générale, will occupy the ground and first to seventh floors on a 25 year lease.

Site enabling works began earlier this year and construction will begin later in 2015 and should complete by 2019.

Outline planning permission has also been granted for 1 Park Place, an office building comprised of one million sq ft of floorspace. The council will now determine a reserved matters application for this office building which is designed by Squire & Partners but Canary Wharf Group said that it had no immediate plans to develop this site.