Tall & Urban News

AHMM, Alison Brooks Architects, Pollard Thomas Edwards and RUFF architects have won the go-ahead for a major mixed-use development in north London.  
The estimated £500-million (US$631-million) project in Tottenham Hale, for developer Argent, will develop five sites around the station and deliver 1,030 new homes. 
The scheme will also deliver around 20 shops, a three-screen cinema, 1,040 square meters of co‐working, and office space, and a 1,580 square meter health center that will serve 30,000 people. 
The Ferry Island and North Island sites will be designed by AHMM; Ashley Road East by Alison Brooks Architects; while PTE is drawing up plans for Welbourne and Ashley Road West. RUFF architects is working on a pavilion project within the scheme. 
The Tottenham Hale scheme is the result of a strategic development partnership formed in 2016 between Haringey Council and Argent Related, itself a pairing of King’s Cross Developer Argent and US real estate firm Related.  
Tom Goodall, director at Argent Related, said: “Over the last three years we have gotten to know Tottenham as a place with ambition and creativity, with a distinctive history, sense of pride and integrity. 
“We’re very pleased the council and local people have put their trust in [us] to deliver the physical change Tottenham Hale deserves and we look forward to delivering on our promises. 
“As well as building homes – including a significant amount the council will own and manage as much-needed social rented housing – our development will bring with it high-quality new public spaces, places for a local economy to grow, and hundreds of new jobs.” 
Construction could begin in summer 2019 with the first new homes completing by the end of 2020. 
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