Developer HB Reavis has said it plans to start work on a City fringe scheme designed by Make early next year after snapping up a 30-year-old site in Shoreditch.

Quick and Tower House was completed between 1988 and 1992 and was given the green light for redevelopment last September by London mayor Sadiq Khan.

The scheme had been referred to City Hall because of concerns it didn’t meet the mayor’s London Plan but Khan said local planning authority Hackney council, which had been minded to approve the scheme, could make the decision itself.

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