Sergison Bates has received final sign-off for a 68m block of skinny flats designed for Baylight Properties in central Wandsworth.

The 20-storey pencil tower will join Metropolitan Workshop’s similarly slender green-glazed Mapleton Crescent tower, which was designed for Pocket Living and completed in 2018, beside the River Wandle.

Wandsworth town centre is undergoing significant regeneration after Young’s left its historic grade II* Ram brewery complex in 2006 after nearly 500 years. The site was masterplanned as a mixed-use district by EPR. Other developments are taking place further along the Wandle and around the town’s traffic-dominated one-way system. The Wandle Valley was a centre of textile printing for about four centuries, with the chalk stream powering William Morris’ Merton Abbey mills and Liberty’s silk printing works among many others.

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