Council signs off 11-block development after affordable housing deal reached
Greenwich council has approved plans by architect Cowen+ Partners for a series of towers containing a combined 1,500 homes after a reduction in the scheme’s share of adorable housing.
Designed for Galliard Homes and City Developments Limited, the Morden Wharf scheme will span 11 buildings ranging in height between eight and 35 storeys, set between a network of green spaces.
The development had originally been approved with 35% of its homes set to be affordable but this was cut to 10% under revisions put before the council in February.
Councillors voted to defer a decision on the reserved matters application - part of a wider outline consent - to allow the developers to provide more detail on the level of affordable housing that could be provided.
The application came back to the planning board last week with an improved offer of a minimum 20% affordable housing, with 68% to be provided as social rent and 32% at intermediate tenures.
The higher affordable share comes after Galliard entered discussions with the council’s list of 17 preferred affordable housing providers, securing interest from five of the organisations and enabling grant funding from the GLA to support the viability of the scheme.
Consented revisions for the scheme have also added two stair cores to all residential buildings to align with building safety requirements, amended the buildings’ spacing to improve daylight and combined two separate blocks into one.
Cowen + Partners is lead architect with the project team including landscape architect Planit, RLB on costs, Aecom on transport and MEP, Quod on planning, Smith Jenkins on heritage and Walsh as structural engineer.
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