East London planning officers are recommending approval for a 56-storey Maccreanor Lavington tower earmarked as the latest addition to the Isle of Dogs tall-buildings cluster.

The practice’s proposals, drawn up for developer Far East Consortium, would see the demolition of a six-storey 1980s office building to make way for the 230m-tall residential block on the site, just north of Marsh Wall on the Isle of Dogs.

Boasting a crown and a 25m spire, the tower would feature 500 apartments, 131 of which would be categorised as “affordable”. A report to next week’s meeting of Tower Hamlets council’s strategic development committee said the development would deliver 35% affordable housing, based on habitable rooms.

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