Fosters' masterplan for £3bn east London development receives planning

摘要

Foster & Partners' masterpLan for a major new Thameside neighbourhood at Silvertown in east London has been approved. London's deputy mayor for planning Jules Pipe last week resolved to grant planning permission for the new masterplan at a public hearing. Pipe called the scheme in in late 2019 after Newham council refused it planning citing worries over infrastructure. Pipe, a former mayor of Hackney and opponent of the original plans to overhaul Bishopsgate Goodsyard in Shoreditch with a series of skyscrapers, said the Silvertown plan was "exactly the kind of site we need to intensify if we are to deliver the homes Londoners need", adding that no more than 1,700 homes should be built before the DLR station opens.