Joint developers McLaren Property and Citygrove win planning for tower in Vauxhall
Architect KPF has won planning for New Bondway, a 50-storey skyscraper in Vauxhall, known as the Jenga tower.
The 170m development for joint developrs McLaren Property - the development arm of contractor McLaren - and Citygrove involves several storeys of the tallest tower appearing to cantilever over a smaller, 25-storey tower.
The scheme, which will replace an old warehouse at 69-71 Bondway, right on the gyratory, contains 450 flats, office space, a gym, cinema and winter garden.
The office space will be stacked above 90 鈥渁ffordable鈥� flats in the lower building. There will be retail units at ground level.
Lambeth council approved it despite residents of a neighbouring building complaining that light to their flats would be blocked.
Objectors also complained that views of Westminster would be damaged.
An earlier 42-storey scheme by architect Make was approved by Lambeth in 2009, but thrown out by communities secretary Eric Pickles in 2011 over fears of a lack of public space.
Completion is expected in 2018.
KPF has also designed a neighbouring scheme, two towers known as One Nine Elms. Work to clear the site, occupied by the 1970s Market Towers offices, has begun.
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