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Tower Hamlets resolves to approve 415 homes for Goodmans Fields


Tower Hamlets Council has resolved to grant planning permission for house builder Berkeley Homes’ plans for the south east block of its Goodmans Fields development in Aldgate, east London.

The plans include three towers up to 23 storeys high and a 12-storey 'podium block', which will contain a total of 415 new homes. The homes would range in size from studio apartments to four-bedroom units. Affordable housing provision of 171 homes has been proposed.

The scheme also includes four flexible commercial units, a health centre, a training centre and a landscaped public park to be known as Chaucer Gardens.

The Council initially granted outline consent for 297 homes in the south east block in 2011. The initial proposals included only two towers, with 19 and 22 floors respectively, and a lower residential block at the perimeter of the site. The plans for the commercial units, health centre and training centre remain unaltered.

The application was on the agenda for a meeting of the Council's strategic development committee last week, having been recommended for approval, subject to a planning agreement and any direction from the mayor of London, in a planning officer's report.

The report said the proposed development would "enhance the character of the immediate area by virtue of its high quality design and provision of new public open spaces", without causing significant adverse impacts on local amenities.

A total of 979 homes are planned for the wider Goodman's Fields site. Student accommodation in the south west block has already been completed and occupied; a 250-bed hotel and 182 homes are under construction in the north west of the site and construction is due to commence on a further 382 homes in the north east block.

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