Southwark approves latest Old Kent Road towers
By Jim Dunton2020-02-17T07:00:00
Bogle Architects’ supermarket scheme squeezes through planning
Plans to redevelop the site of a discount supermarket in south-east London have become the latest Old Kent Road tower proposals to win the backing of Southwark councillors.
Bogle Architects’ scheme would redevelop the site of a branch of Aldi with a development featuring 21- and 13-storey towers above a ground-level replacement supermarket.
The approval – which scraped past Southwark’s planning committee by four votes to three, with one abstention – follows green lights for several high-rise schemes in the area in recent months, the tallest being separate 48-storey proposals by Pilbrow & Partners and Brisac Gonzalez.
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