Results tagged “Glenkerrin”

Gang violence has been blamed for a clash which left two Isle of Dogs teens in hospital with stab wounds.

A 17 and 14 year old were taken to separate East London hospitals after a battle involving around 30 youths between Cahir Street and Harbinger Road at around 5.30pm last Friday (May 29).

City Pride staff are cautiously preparing for next year's London Marathon festivities.

Marathon day is traditionally the Westferry Road pub's busiest day of the year. But many believed April's event would be its last before it was closed to make way for Glenkerrin's 62-storey Pride development.

Boris Johnson has approved Glenkerrin's linked Island Point and Pride proposals on Westferry Road.

The London Mayor followed Tower Hamlets Council in backing the plans this week, despite concerns from neighbours about their high density and effect on light.

Roosting bats could force a developer to tinker with its plans for an island development.

Residents near the proposed Island Point development have reported four separate sightings of the nocturnal mammal flying to and from the current site, a disused building on Westferry Road.

A crucial planning meeting for Islanders has been postponed due to a clash with the G20 summit.

Tower Hamlets Council initially claimed it would proceed with Thursday's Strategic Development Committee meeting, but changed its mind due to concerns over traffic and protester disruption.

The council is going ahead with a crucial planning meeting which clashes with the G20 summit.

Residents hoping to hear Island applications - which include Glenkerrin's contentious Island Point and Pride plans - fear their journey may be affected by travel disruption and protests on April 2.

Many residents around the proposed Island Point development have lived in their homes for decades.

And they are not welcoming their potential new neighbour with open arms.

Residents will continue their fight against Island Point after councillors failed to come to a decision on Glenkerrin's controversial development.

The application for the Westferry Road scheme was deferred on Thursday night due to concerns over insufficient developer contributions, delaying its sister project on the City Pride site as a result.

Island residents are to make one last effort to block a controversial “ghetto� development.

Tower Hamlets Council’s strategic development committee will decide whether to grant planning permission to the linked Pride and Island Point schemes next Thursday.

DEVELOPER Glenkerrin has tinkered with the skyscraping development planned for the current City Pride pub site.

The Irish firm has reduced the size of the hotel attached to the 63-storey scheme, and has also altered the design of its Island Point residential project further down Westferry Road.

GLENKERRIN could shift its required social housing from the City Pride tower to a scheme down the road.

Government regulations require any developer to provide 40 per cent social housing on a scheme. But the Irish developer is looking to transfer the majority of its affordable units to Island Point, a residential project further down Westferry Road.

ARCHITECT Foster and Partners has revealed its vision for the City Pride pub site.

The 1950s former dockers haunt will make way for a 63-storey tower which designers expect to rise as high as 209 metres.

It will feature a 13-floor five-star hotel, as well as 40 residential floors and two floors of social housing.

THE UK’S most expensive pub could soon become the country’s tallest residential tower.

Irish developer Glenkerrin has unveiled ambitious plans for a 63-storey building on the site of the City Pride pub in Westferry Road, which it acquired for a reported £32million this spring.

IT could soon be last orders for the City Pride pub.

The Westferry Road haunt looks set to make way for a flagship tower, with a hotel, apartments and retail space.

Developer Glenkerrin has plans for a large building on the site after snapping up the prime development land for a reported £32million. But it remains tight-lipped on when it hopes to call time on the watering hole.

It has been suggested that Glenkerrin is considering a building rising as high as 55-storeys, with a five-storey hotel and 400 apartments.