McLaren appointed main contractor on PCSA with job expected to start next year
John F Hunt has moved back onto the site of a planned a £200m City office scheme a year after completing demolition work.
The Tenter House job has been repeatedly stalled and redesigned several times for developer Freshwater, which has owned the site for more than 50 years, with four proposals and seven main planning applications submitted since 1997.
Hunt finished demolishing the existing 13-storey building before moving off site early last year.
Now the firm is carrying out enabling work with this part of the project due to finsih in the summer. Landscaping work is set to start in July.
McLaren is signed up for a PCSA on the job, having beaten Bovis and Mace to the work. It will be built next door to the 21 Moorfields office complex, the new home of Deutsche Bank.
A start on the job has been delayed into next year with plans for a concrete frame dropped for a steel one.
Earlier this month, Building revealed Fletcher Priest has been working with Freshwater on the scheme for several months with the move to replace previous firm David Walker Architects made last year.
Fletcher Priest, which is working on several office schemes in the City including 55 Old Broad Street and 63 St Mary Axe, is working on stage 4 designs which are expected to take up much of this year.
The job was given planning in October 2024 with David Walker’s plans featuring a part 14, part 21-storey building containing 33,760sq m of office space with retail and community space on the ground floor along with significant public realm works to City Point Plaza and a reconstruction of New Union Street as a pedestrian route.
Freshwater said it would be submitting a Non-Material Amendment application to the City, which allows for small, technical updates to an approved planning permission.
“The proposed change from concrete to steel is minor in nature,” the firm said in an update, adding that it would not affect design details, including height and massing.
The project team includes development advisor JLL, project manager Buro Four, planning consultant Montagu Evans, QS Exigere, structural engineer AKT II, services engineer WSP, landscape architect Townshend Landscape Architects and townscape consultant Tavernor.
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