Finsgate House scheme to contain 500 homes and adjacent office block
Developer Hub is planning a 35-storey co-living tower in Shoreditch.
The 500-home Finsgate House scheme, being drawn up by architect AHMM. would replace a five-storey 1980s office building on Cranwood Street in an emerging high-rise cluster close to Old Street roundabout.
It would also include an adjacent seven-storey office building containing around 6,000sq m of office space.
Hub has carried out two rounds of public consultation on the scheme and filed technical documents to Hackney council ahead of the submission of a full planning application due later this year.
Demolition of the 0.17ha site’s existing office complex is scheduled to start next year with the development anticipated to complete by 2030.
The residential component of the scheme would contain up to 22,000sq m of co-living floorspace with retail or community space on the ground floor and amenity space including cycle parking and end-of-trip facilities.
The tower’s shared spaces would include kitchens, laundrettes, a cinema, co-working spaces and shared communal living areas located throughout the building.
The project team includes Lichfields on planning, BD as landscape architect, Atelier Ten on MEP, AKT II on structures and civils, Ashton Fire on fire and Montagu Evans on townscape. Avison Young has submitted an environmental impact assessment scoping report.
The scheme would add to a growing high-rise corridor near Old Street roundabout which includes Make’s 40-storey Atlas Tower, completed in 2019, and KPF’s 36-storey 99 City Road, which was approved in 2023.
Hub is also working with AHMM on plans to convert a 1950s office block next to the Barbican into 174 co-living homes.
Approved last year, the 45 Beech Street scheme has been designed to mimic the Barbican with round arched roofs, a characteristic design feature of the 1970s complex.
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