Green Light for Alumno’s Stratford Tower
Alumno Developments have won planning consent for a 26 storey 431 room tower on Stratford High Street, designed by MJP Architects.
The tower is on the Olympic Legacy site, in an area which has been wholly redeveloped since the war with no apparent masterplan strategy. The area is characterised by very tall buildings on the High Street, with much smaller domestic scaled buildings in the hinterland.
The ‘student experience’ is a key concern, to create an inclusive and accessible building with an abundance of amenities and social facilities, designed to promote social interaction and community living. Student rooms are arranged in ‘clusters’, sharing kitchen/living rooms …