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PLP has been given planning for an office scheme above the new Crossrail station being built at Farringdon.

PLP originally won the scheme back in 2010 with the 11,150sq m building sitting directly above the eastern ticket hall in Lindsey Street but construction is only able to start – likely to be next year – once major work at the station is finished.

The scheme is one of a pair of Crossrail developments planned above the station which will be handling 140 trains an hour at peak.

John Robertson Architects has already been given the green light for a 17,400sq m scheme called Cardinal House above the station’s western ticket hall on the corner of Cowcross Street and Farringdon Road.

The new station will open in 2018.