Planners receive Millharbour bid
Developers have submitted firm plans for a nine-building development in the heart of the Millennium Quarter near South Quay.
Millharbour LLP and Millharbour 2LLP have filed a planning application with Tower Hamlets Council for the Millharbour Quarter project, which will include 1,634 homes, 44,938sqm of office space and 2,859sqm of retail.
The plans for two neighbouring sites have been refined during consultations with Tower Hamlets Council since March 2008 and have been drawn up by a joint design team of Foster and Partners and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.
The development is part of the wider Millennium Quarter site south of Marsh Wall, which also features projects such as Oracle Group's residential Indescon Court. Millharbour East is located just south of Pan Peninsula, while the Millharbour West site is currently occupied by buildings including an Audi garage. Millharbour East comprises three towers, two low rise buildings and public spaces and gardens. Studios to three-bedroom apartments will be on offer in the development, which will feature four residential buildings and one devoted to serviced apartments.
The flagship tower in Millharbour West is Building A, a 45-storey residential tower featuring 457 residential units, designed with a "ziggurat building footprint" to maximise corner views.
The developers are keen to highlight the public element of the project, which will feature green spaces and plazas for eating and relaxation.
The applicant said: "Cafes and restaurants will provide meeting places for parents before and after school, for workers during lunch hours and for visitors and residents."
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Not at all impressed with this proposal.
The saturation and heights of the building are too much, and it is simply gonna overkill the area in the years to come..
The space should have much more open green area and perhaps some towers no taller than 25 stories as a max.
The PP towers were tall enough, thus, everything going south should be much less..
ie. 25 max floors on all future developments south of PP would bte fair and also much more pretty.