Councillors in east London are being advised to condemn their 1990s headquarters to the wrecking ball to make way for two SimpsonHaugh-designed residential towers.

Tower Hamlets Council’s strategic development committee is set to back the demolition of its Mulberry Place town hall building at Blackwall along with the neighbouring Lighterman House office block, both designed by Sten Samuelson and the Beaton Thomas Partnership.

The move will make way for two new towers on the former East India Dock site: a 36-storey block featuring 716 student rooms and a 30-storey tower providing 150 build-to-rent flats.

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