Plans for a 15-storey tower in front of Woolwich’s Tesco store were approved at the second time of asking on Tuesday – as it emerged that a second major building project in the town centre would also need to be reworked to meet new fire safety rules. The long-delayed final phase of the Woolwich Central […]
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Missing staircases halt approval of Woolwich Tesco tower development
Plans for a 15-storey tower outside the Tesco store in Woolwich will come back before Greenwich councillors again next week – because developers did not include a second staircase in the block. Developers had wanted to build a 27-storey tower on green space outside the store, which has been earmarked for development since before the […]
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‘Pig ugly’ 15-storey Woolwich Tesco tower approved by councillors
Greenwich councillors approved plans for a 15-storey tower outside Woolwich’s Tesco store last night – with the chair of planning refusing to either endorse or oppose the scheme. The town hall’s planning board backed the scheme by Meyer Homes, which will replace the green space outside the 10-year-old supermarket, by four votes to three. It […]
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Greenwich planners backed Woolwich Tesco tower being 15 storeys high
Greenwich Council planning staff called for a controversial new development in Woolwich town centre to be cut to 15 storeys, planning documents have revealed. Meyer Homes’ plans to build a 27-storey tower outside the Tesco on General Gordon Square were thrown out by a planning inspector last summer, upholding a decision made by councillors on […]
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Twelve storeys lopped off Woolwich’s controversial Tesco tower plan
The developers behind Woolwich’s rejected Tesco tower have come back with new plans – lopping 12 storeys off the building to propose a 15-storey block facing General Gordon Square. Meyer Homes is also planning seven further blocks behind the store, facing the South Circular Road, of between 11 and 16 storeys, as it attempts to […]
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Inspector criticises ‘terrible mistake’ of Woolwich Tesco as 27-storey tower rejected
Controversial plans to build a 27-storey tower block in front of Woolwich’s Tesco store have been thrown out by the communities secretary Robert Jenrick, 18 months after Greenwich Council rejected a proposal for an 804-home scheme. Jenrick’s decision follows a planning inspector’s report which heavily criticised the eight-year-old Tesco store and the council’s Woolwich Centre […]
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Lewisham’s 34-storey Tesco tower approved by minister after public inquiry
Developers have won an appeal to build a 34-storey tower on land next to the Tesco supermarket in Lewisham after council officials dropped their objections at a public inquiry. Meyer Homes was given permission to build the tower by the secretary of state for local government, Robert Jenrick, after a planning inspector recommended approval of […]
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Woolwich Tesco and Charlton Riverside planning inquiries get under way
Two public inquiries started this morning which could have a big impact on the future of some of Greenwich borough’s biggest development schemes. A seven-day hearing into Greenwich Council’s refusal of plans to build a 27-storey tower in front of Tesco in Woolwich began earlier at Woolwich Town Hall; while a 12-day hearing into London […]
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