Birch House nears completion

The building is part of Kidbrooke Village, a £1bn regeneration scheme led by Berkeley Group in partnership with the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the London Wildlife Trust. Previous consent had been given for a six-storey hotel on the site of Birch House, and the wider area had planning consent for 4,000 homes and non-residential uses. We could see the opportunity to rethink the planned hotel, the lowest of all the buildings, into the tallest of them all and to further develop the potential of the site by adding an extra two storeys on each of the buildings adjacent. In response to increasing demand for housing and working closely with our client, we successfully put the case across for higher density and 15 extra storeys, and we won planning consent for this landmark 21-storey, mixed-use building right next to the train station.