Landsec reveals delays to Bennetts and Wilkinson Eyre projects

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Developer still mulling Timber Square decision as completion slips again on 21 Moorfields

Landsec has still not said when it will start work on a speculative £280m office-led scheme in Southwark designed by Bennetts Associates.

Timber Square was given the green light by local planners last December and involves turning a 1950s printworks into 350,000 sq ft of grade A offices, affordable workspace, roof terraces and new public realm.

Demolition work is under way and the developer appointed a contractor despite saying the pandemic had put question marks over the job.

But in its half year results published yesterday - which also revealed the status of other projects - Landsec admitted it had still not made up its mind about whether to press on with the job.

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