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UK: Blue Coast Capital has been granted planning consent for a 245-unit coliving scheme on a site in Shoreditch, east London.
The plans for the triangular plot in Fleet Street Hill, next to Brick Lane, were designed by architects Morris+Company. Blue Coast Capital took over the site and its sister plot, the nearby Huntingdon Estate, from developer Londonewcastle, which had secured planning for an earlier housing scheme.
Blue Coast Capital commissioned Morris+Company to come up with all-new proposals for both sites: a nine-storey office-led development for the 0.28 hectare Huntingdon Estate, which was approved in 2021; and the coliving-led development on the Fleet Street Hill site.
Morris+Company’s newly consented 13,300-square metre scheme will deliver 220 coliving studios and 25 homes for social rent.
These will be housed in two towers, of 11 and 12 storeys. The scheme also features a single-storey pavilion with a tall beacon structure, at the western end of the site, which will house a café and community space.
According to the practice, the scheme will transform the site into a “vibrant, sustainable, residential-led development’. It added: ‘The architectural and urban design approach takes its inspiration from the rich character of Spitalfields and Banglatown, ensuring that the scheme is contextually responsive and enhances the identity of the area.”
VervLife will operate the scheme.
Highlights:
• Blue Coast Capital has been granted planning consent for a 245-unit coliving scheme on a site in Shoreditch, east London
• The plans for the triangular plot in Fleet Street Hill, next to Brick Lane, were designed by architects Morris+Company
• The newly consented 13,300-square metre scheme will deliver 220 coliving studios and 25 homes for social rent
• VervLife will operate the scheme
