Plans to redevelop the site of a discount supermarket in south-east London have become the latest Old Kent Road tower proposals to win the backing of Southwark councillors.

Bogle Architects’ scheme would redevelop the site of a branch of Aldi with a development featuring 21- and 13-storey towers above a ground-level replacement supermarket.

The approval – which scraped past Southwark’s planning committee by four votes to three, with one abstention – follows green lights for several high-rise schemes in the area in recent months, the tallest being separate 48-storey proposals by Pilbrow & Partners and Brisac Gonzalez.

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