Frasers Property has submitted plans to Tower Hamlets Council for an office-led scheme near Aldgate East Tube station.
The plans involve a six-storey extension on top of a refurbished six-storey building, which will provide around 150,000 sq ft of offices and replace educational space.
Frasers acquired the site from London Metropolitan University in February 2016 for £50m, following LMU’s decision to move to a new campus in Islington. The site has been vacant since August 2017.
An EIA application was submitted for the site by the applicant in 2016 for a much larger scheme with around 300,000 sq ft of offices and 200 hotel rooms in a 22-storey tower. Tower Hamlets did not support the scale of development, however.
The new scheme will provide two different types of office accommodation, with more “raw” and characterful office space in the refurbished existing building and more polished office space in the new-build extension above.
Around 7,000 sq ft of retail/leisure space is also proposed on the ground floor.
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris is the architect and Lichfields is the planning consultant.
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