Jenrick overrules officials and green lights east London resi towers

By Jim Dunton2020-01-17T06:00:00

PLP's Westferry Printworks proposals, seen from the south

Mace is development manager on 1,500 home scheme at site owned by media tycoon Richard Desmond

Housing secretary Robert Jenrick has used his ministerial powers to approve the supersized version of PLP’s Westferry Printworks scheme – against the advice of a planning inspector.

Client Westferry Developments, which has appointed Mace as development manager, already had consent for a 722-home version of the scheme, to be delivered in four towers of up to 30 storeys on the 5ha Isle of Dogs site after then-Mayor of London Boris Johnson used his powers to approve the scheme in 2016.

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