Design revealed for revamped Riverside House in Woolwich
Consultation documents for Riverside House in Woolwich have offered a glimpse of future appearance before a full planning application is submitted.
The former block was sold by Greenwich Council which occupied a number of floors alongside HMRC.
These plans would see student housing and a hotel on site in two blocks.
A total of 332 student rooms would sit beside 265 hotel rooms.
The structure would be stripped back to its frame and extended upwards, with new cladding applied to the exterior.
Documents show a public route through the site between Woolwich High Street and MacBean Street.
260 cycle spaces are proposed. How the site interacts with any cycle lane will be interesting to see.
A number of residential plans for the site have been and gone, with the building in use as artists studios. Around 600 are based within the site.
Many plots in the vicinity have development underway or in planned, with many being student housing. Beresford Street is seeing work underway on student housing on the former Catholic Club. An adjacent site now looks likely to see student housing (more on that in a future post).
Student housing is also being drawn up for MacBean Street which was formerly the home of Woolwich Poly school
There’s also 660 homes planned from Berkeley Homes on Beresford Street, while Mortgramit Square has seen revised plans.
So Greenwich Council sell their own block on their own land instead of using it for council housing which then sees plans for a hotel.
Meanwhile Greenwich Council are spending millions booking hotels for temporary housing due to a lack of council homes.
We’re in a crazy, crazy world (and taxpayers are footing the bill).
But it’s private led which is what the new government seems to want (much like the old government).
Taxpayers and extra costs? Forget about it. This is sensible financial management according to Rachel Reeves.
Yet more student housing. What about building actual homes for people??
I totally agree Warniie. Greenwich Council tend to care more about building student blocks and hotels rather than building actual hones for people to live in. Riverside House should never have been sold to private developers and instead converted in to new sicial housing homes for local people. Greenwich Council also sold other Council owned sites to private developers.
They should also build social housing on the site of the old Waterfront Leisure Centre when it finally closes.
Labour, in particular London Labour councils, is why I didn’t vote for the party in the general election. Nobody wants to properly address the housing crisis and Greenwich is piss-poor at everything it does.
Millions spent on trying to attract nightlife and culture via Woolwich Works, meanwhile SET within this building has been the only real attraction of good nightlife and arts, attracting people from other boroughs.
I understand the need for more homes, but it can’t always be at the cost of culture… what actually makes this city worth living in for many. A lot of queer events here too, which are an endgagered species as is!
Endangered*