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£1bn London O2 Centre redevelopment approved

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Landsec has won permission for a major redevelopment of The O2 Centre in North West London. 

O2 Centre
Image credit: Christine Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
by Rory Butler April 3, 2023

Camden Council has granted planning permission for the real estate investment firm’s O2 Centre Masterplan, part of a £1 billion investment in the borough. 

The new mixed-use development, earmarked for a 14-acre site off Finchley Road in Camden, is understood to be the ‘largest planning application in the borough since Kings Cross’. 

Landsec aims to deliver 1,800 new homes, alongside 180,000 sq ft of retail, leisure and community space, on an under-utilised car park behind the O2 retail centre. 

The plans recently underwent redesign due to London mayor Sadiq Khan’s ruling to make a secondary staircase compulsory in new residential tower blocks.  

It is understood the scheme could mean up to £34.5 million annually for the local economy.  

Project team 

  • Mace  
  • Pell Frishmann 
  • Hoare Lea  

Design 

  • Allford Hall Monaghan Morris 

Construction could span 15 years and sustain ‘hundreds’ of sector jobs a month.  

Image credit: Christine Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons. 

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