Building / block / estate
52-56 Commercial Road
Address
52-56 Commercial Road, London E1 1LP
Local Authority
Tower Hamlets
Storeys / height
17 Storeys OVER 18m
Cladding
ACM identified on drawings to both applications to Tower Hamlets for Certificate of lawfulness in respect of proposed ACM cladding replacement.
Combustible Insulation behind Terracotta tile cladding to be removed .
Owner / Landlord
Rocquefort Properties Limited
Original design architect
Rivington Street Studio
Columbia Architectural Design Limited - (Materials discharge / Building Control application)
Delta Architects (Extension)
Original consent ref/date
843687 - decided by Thu 22 Dec 2005 - Rivington Street Studio
- Demolition of existing buildings and redevelopment to provide a mixed-use complex of four buildings comprising a seventeen storey tower and a thirteen storey tower on the Commercial Road frontage, a six storey block and a five storey block either side of Gowers Walk, along with the provision of linear public open space. Redevelopment of site to provide a total of 136 x 1, 2 and 3 bedroom flats including 38 affordable units and six live/work units, 25 parking spaces, storage and plant space in the basement, café (A3), retail (A1), health club (D2) and office space (B1) on the ground floor along with six reinstated car parking spaces from the social housing west of Gowers Walk, offices, flats and live / work units on the second and third floors, offices, flats, live/work units and a health club on the third floor and flats on all of the floors above. The two blocks either side of Gowers Walk to provide 22 of the affordable housing units only. Proposal includes the redevelopment of the “triangle” site west of Gowers Walk and supersedes the previous application ref: PA/02/1111 received 29th July 2002. (Development affecting the setting of a Listed Building).
PA/07/01180 - approved 11 Jun 2007 - Columbia Architectural Design Limited
- Approval of details pursuant to condition 13 (materials) of planning permission dated 22/12/05, reference PA/07/1180. | 52 To 58 Commercial Road, London
- Wall Type C - Terracotta - Faveton Ceramics
- Wall Type F - Stotherm Classic (EPS insulation)
- Wall Type G - Eternit Natura
PA/09/00479/A1- decided 02/06/2009 Plans by Formation Architects
- Variation of condition 3 of approved planning application reference PA/03/00776, to allow change of use of part of ground, first, second and third floor levels of 52 to 58 Commercial Road from office (813.20sqm nia, class B1) and health club (425.10sqm nia, class D1) purposes, to education purposes (class D1). | 52 -58 Commercial Road, London.
FP/06/32812/B2 - Completion Wed 21 Apr 2010. Agent Columbia Architectural Design Limited
- Building Control. Proposed complex of a mixed-use building comprising a seventeen & thirteen storey towers fronting Commercial Road and a five & a six storey residential block facing Gowers Walk. | 52-58 Commercial Road, London, E1. Decision 15/02/2007.
PA/15/00621/A1 - Approved 6/05/2015 Delta Architects
- Single storey roof extension to provide 2 x 2 bed and 1 x 3 bed flats.
- Delta Architects 1 Batemans Row London EC2A 3HH T:020 7613 5702
Remediation ref/date
- PA/21/00607/NC - Approved 18/02/2022
- PA/24/00624/NC - Approved 19/06/2024
Remediation lead
4D Planning
Litigation
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Source / Evidence / Links
- Certificate of lawfulness (above) in respect of proposed ACM cladding replacement
- LFB ACM 18m+ disclosure log (FOI2024/00164) - row 8 (listed there as “58 Commercial Road” — matched here on your confirmation that this is the same building as 52-58 Commercial Road above)

KEY:
K: ZINC / ALUMINIUM CLADDING