Wimshurst Pelleriti has been granted planning permission for a 20-storey residential tower in the centre of Sutton, south London, even though its proposals are twice the height specified by the local authority masterplan for the area.

Planning officers said the scheme, for 113 apartments ranging in size from studios to three-bed units, boasted design of an “exceptional standard” that justified its departure from Sutton’s town-centre masterplan. The document sanctioned eight to 10 storeys for the site.

The building reuses the existing basement structure of a commercial unit that occupied the Throwley Way site until 2014.

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