Woolwich block containing three hundred rooms rising quickly
A student housing block on Beresford Street in Woolwich has quickly risen in height in recent days.
It’s the forthcoming site of 299 student rooms with a further block planned next door.
In recent weeks the same owner submitted plans for a site beside Premier Inn.
Head a bit further along and work is now underway for 660 homes at The Ropeyards.
Here’s a shot showing what’s going on north of all that with the final two of six Berkeley Homes’ towers on the old Waterfront car park.
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Beresford Street is pretty much clogged daily right now with building work reducing one lane southbound.
It’s also not too great for pedestrians, with much of the road now unusable while work is underway.
Oh, I’ve got all this way without showing how the student blocks will look. If you missed a recent post, here it is.
Next we await detailed plans for the site seen on the right in the above image which was formerly homes to Woolwich Poly school (along with others in the past).
Developer Re:shape are looking at up to 1,200 co-living units on site with Fathom architects behind the design.
A previous plan for 595 homes was rejected by Greenwich Council’s Planning Board three years ago.
It’s yet more public land sold off in a housing crises. Detailed plans should be uploaded to Greenwich’s planning portal soon.
And when they are, I’ll be covering them.
Work is now well underway on the student block. If the second block of student accommodation gets planning approval Brentford street will be unrecognisable.
I think on the site of the old Woolwich polytechnic school on MacBeab Street should be individual bedsits with their own bathrooms and kitchens. Rather than co-living accommodation where you have to share kitchen and bathrooms. As peopke prefer their own private space rather than sharing facilities.
Three hundred rooms, that’s warehousing and not living.
Coop-living, not co-living. People are being treated like animals, forced to live in pens, so that developers can make maximum profits. Local authorities are buckling under the cost of providing emergency housing, yet give permission for student blocks (even though international applications have nosedived) on sites that could be used for actual ‘homes’. The whole system is corrupt.