New plans from CSC and Helical Bar
Capital Shopping Centres yesterday announced it has submitted a planning application to extend the Lakeside shopping centre in Thurrock, in a £180m scheme that would add 325,000 sq ft to the centre, increasing its size by nearly a third.
The extension would include up to 40 more shops, and also involves plans for a new bus station and a link road to the north of the centre. CSC says the plans have been submitted in an outline application to Thurrock Thames Gateway Development Council. If approved, work would begin in 2013 with completion due in 2016.
The Telegraph notes that the extension would make Lakeside the third-largest shopping centre in the UK, with only Westfield Stratford City and the Metrocentre in Gateshead remaining larger.
Meanwhile Property Week reports that Helical Bar, together with architect Sheppard Robson, has drawn up plans for a vast redevelopment of the Barts Hospital site in the City of London, which PW says will be the largest regeneration scheme in the City for 20 years. It says the proposals for the 2.3-acre site include 230,000 sq ft of offices, 225,000 sq ft of which will be in a single building, plus 225 flats and 27,000 sq ft of shops.
The mixed-use scheme will involve some demoltion and some refurbishment. The key office building will front onto Montague Street and will have floorplates of 18,000 sq ft.
Helical Bar plans to submit a planning application for the scheme in the first quarter of next year. It plans to take vacant possession of the hospital site in stages between 2014 and 2016. A new hospital is already under construction in the same area.
