Tall & Urban News

Kensington and Chelsea Council has withdrawn its contentious plans for a cluster of new Haworth Tompkins-designed buildings—including a 14-story tower—next to Ernö Goldfinger's Trellick Tower.

The practice’s scheme for the borough had proposed 112 new rental homes in five new buildings on the Edenham site, which forms part of the Cheltenham Estate in west London.

The plot is on the site of the former Edenham care home, fronting Elkstone Road, which was controversially demolished in 2008 and is now in use as a bus parking lot. The plans included a new podium for the Grade II*-listed Trellick Tower, replacing the original partly demolished in 1989 for a housing scheme that never materialized. It would have housed a new community center.

The scheme was opposed by residents from the surrounding estate. 

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