Developer cleared to extend Make-designed skyscraper to 56 storeys

By Jim Dunton2024-04-04T13:02:00

Ministers back request to add seven new floors to under construction Docklands tower

A developer has been given the green light to add seven storeys to a Make Architects-designed skyscraper on the Isle of Dogs in east London.

Chalegrove Properties last week secured the backing of the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities for its proposals to increase the height of 225 Marsh Wall to 56 storeys – a plan r ejected by Tower Hamlets Council in 2022.

The developer originally received consent for a 49-storey version of the scheme at appeal in 2018 after its initial 56-storey designs were reduced in height and rejigged.

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