Ballymore cleared to build Docklands schemes

The London Arena project, dubbed Baltimore Wharf is a 45-storey building containing 1,111 residential units.

Alongside the homes in the tower will be a 19-floor hotel comprising 143 rooms and 105 serviced apartments.

Shops and restaurants will be based on the ground floor of the London Arena site, which was once a venue for concerts by artists such as Pink Floyd and Robbie Williams.

Ballymore also received planning permission from Newham council and the Thames Gateway Development Corporation to build Minoco Wharf at Silvertown, near London City Airport.

As well as 2,598 residential units, the development will include 26,000sq metres of shops and community and leisure facilities.

It will also include the first marina and river dock to be built on the Thames for 50 years.

David Brophy, Ballymore’s chief executive said: “We are delighted to have achieved these significant planning permissions.
“We have spent more than 20 years in the area from the City to City Airport and it has become universally accepted that East London is in a unique situation, economically.
“London will continue to expand eastwards and Ballymore will be at the heart of this.
“We have large and significant developments completed or in final stages of the planning process right along the river.”

The company is also behind the huge Pan Peninsula towers in Canary Wharf which are due for completion in summer 2009. The developer is also heavily involved in the redevelopment of Wood Wharf.