Developer U+I has received the planning green light for the Greenwich Peninsula scheme in London, a 1,500-home Morden Wharf plan consisting of 12 buildings ranging from 6-37 storeys, highest number having vertical green façades. The second tallest structure of the £770m riverside residential towers will feature a tapering base, creating more area to the public realm.
The Greenwich Peninsula scheme will be a mix of social rent, private sale and shared ownership with a ‘tenure blind’ specification, which means there will be no difference between affordable and private sale houses in appearance.
The project will be set in over six acres of high-quality public realm with a 4-acre landscaped park opening up over 275m of Thames riverfront that contains a river beach. The Greenwich Peninsula scheme is a milestone for U+I and it’s and addition to a third planning success on the detailed consents granted previously to two other core regeneration projects at Landmark Court and Phase 1 at Mayfield.
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The distinctive development.
The Chief Executive Officer at U+I, Richard Upton said that they are pleased with the planning decision at Morden Wharf, giving a blueprint to develop a distinctive mixed-use neighbourhood opening up 275 metres of Thames riverfront. The Greenwich Peninsula scheme offers much needed innovative offices, new homes and creative space, as well as beautiful green landscape and community space. The project will create thousands of new jobs and offer £42m of benefit to the local community annually.
Designed by Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), the Greenwich Peninsula scheme plan was submitted to the Royal Borough of Greenwich in June 2020 for approval after an extensive consultation with the local community and key stakeholders. Providing as many new homes as possible is now an economic imperative in order to abate the London and the national housing crisis. So statistically, the injection of new scheme is a welcome boost.
