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Lendlease gets greenlight for £250m Stratford offices

Developers Lendlease and London & Continental Railways have been given planning consent for another portion of their International Quarter development in Stratford.

The pair’s plans for a 21-storey office block, which will encompass around 800,000 sq ft of space, were unanimously approved by the Olympic Legacy Development Corporation, the body which is overseeing development in and around the Olympic Park in Stratford.

Ben O’Rourke, Lendlease’s Managing Director of International Quarter London, commented: “This building reflects International Quarter London’s focus on creating a pioneering workplace for progressive businesses, placing culture, health and wellbeing at its heart.

“The flexible design will allow it to be occupied by single or multiple tenants, and includes a number of technological innovations which are firsts in the UK on this scale. For example, it will feature an intelligent closed-cavity façade which tracks the sun with dynamic shading and a supply of 100% fresh air throughout the building.”

It comes after the developers secured reserved matters for two further commercial buildings at the site in early 2015, dubbed Building S4 and Building S6, which were subsequently prelet and forward sold for over £600m.

Once completed the vast International Quarter London development will house over 4m sq ft of offices along with 52,000 sq ft of shops and restaurants.