Plans submitted for the redevelopment of the former Royal Mail sorting office

Plans for the site were made public earlier this year; the original plan was for a 224 metre high tower, known as Paddington Place. The developers have revised their plans and increased the height of the tower to 254 metres high. If granted planning permission, this will become one of the tallest towers in the capital.

The £1 billion proposal includes more than 330 new homes, 10,000 square metres of office space, 5,000 sq m of retail space, restaurants, a sky garden, a rooftop restaurant and an acre of public realm works.  It is expected that the redevelopment will create 450 construction jobs.

The location of the site will benefit from the opening of the Crossrail station in Paddington and improvement works are planned for the current station to cope with the increased capacity. There will be changes to the configuration of the current underground station, a new ticket hall four times larger than the existing one will be built for the Bakerloo line and connections between the different underground lines will be improved.

Planning expert Richard Ford of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com said "This is a long awaited landmark development scheme which will continue the progress of redevelopments of former Royal Mail depot schemes across London, as well as the renaissance around major stations. London's major development projects continue apace and 2016 will be an exciting year."