ShedKM architects win approval to build a new Abbey Wood tower block

Approval has been granted to ShedKM for a revised 21-storey residential scheme to be built in Abbey Wood, South East London.

This approval has been reduced in height by the original proposal of eight storeys. The practice’s first proposals for the site, close to the new Abbey Wood crossrail station, feature a 29-storey scheme, submitted in September 2016.

This is London and Liverpool-based architects’ first tower in the UK’s capital, dubbed ‘Abbey Place’, and remains the company’s tallest building to date.

Despite reducing the height of this project, the new revisions have been said to increase the number of available flats in the property from 208 to 245, upping the commercial floor space from 783m² to 882m².

This has been made possible by making the western building larger with an extra four floors added to the 10-storeys originally proposed. The site was bought in late 2015 by HUB and its partner, Bridges, a specialist sustainable and social impact investor.

ShedKM’s other major London scheme is the £47m, 10-storey Ruskin Square development in Croydon, for Schroders + Stanhope, which was completed in December 2016.