New Tower Planned For Woolwich London

Woolwich in London could be set to get a new tower if proposals to build a 25 floor residential scheme as the landmark of 1,000 new homes gets the go ahead.The tower and the rest of the development, called Love Lane, has had Collado Collins Architects and HLM Architects work as the lead designers. They have designed not only the slender residential building but also new civic offices for the council, a library, hundreds of lower-rise homes and new pedestrian links to take advantage of the future proximity to the DLR station planned for Woolwich Arsenal.The development will also include the largest Tesco shop in Europe, presumably because Tesco feel that London doesn't yet have enough of their stores and there's always room for one bigger. Tesco are also one of the partners in the development, the others being local Greenwich Council and St James but not everyone supports the Love Lane development.In typical NIMBY fashion the management company of the nearby Connaught Mews have lined themselves up to get the scheme slashed down in size as much as possible by whipping their residents into a frenzy.Just in-case people weren't scared of the development they have even gone to the lengths of preparing a photomontage of the Mews with a tower dominating the view. Naturally it isn't an image of THE tower planned but rather a photo-shopped grim sixties-looking tower that already exists nearby, Elliston House by the looks of it... so much for accuracy. There are also concerns not only about the height of the tower, but also about the traffic and increased amounts of pedestrians that the regeneration of an area classified by the government as "disadvantaged relief area" could bring. The tower has already been repositioned further away from the mews after consultation with English Heritage. With this compromise in mind, the broad support of CABE to the master-plan, and the council's stake in the project it's unlikely to be any further hold-ups and unlike Granite Wharf, it's likely to go-ahead without being completely neutered.