ACM CLADDING RECORDS

Wheel House and Chart House

Properties1
categoriesBuildings, ACM, 18m plus

Building / block / estate

Wheel House and Chart House

Address

Burrells Wharf Square, London E14

Local Authority

Tower Hamlets

Storeys / height

NINE storeys each, 70 apartments each. Reinforced-concrete framed, clad externally with concrete panels. OVER 18m

Cladding

(ACM 18m plus) Combustible material on the 5th floor. NINE storeys each, 70 apartments each. Reinforced-concrete framed and clad externally with concrete panels
(ACM candidates) ACM (named in planning application: New non-combustible cladding system in place of the areas of the 5th floor where combustible material is present)

Owner / Landlord

Original design architect

Jestico & Whiles

Residential conversion of the wider site began 1988; these blocks c.1988-92

Remediation ref/date

(ACM 18m plus) PA/21/00922/NC
(ACM candidates) PA/21/00922/NC 13/05/2021

Remediation lead

Litigation

Source / Evidence / Links

  • (Master ACM building list) Combustible material on the 5th floor. NINE storeys each, 70 apartments each. Reinforced-concrete framed and clad externally with concrete panels
  • (ACM 18m plus) Survey of London vols 43-4, pp.466-480 (British History Online) - authoritative; Wikipedia on Burrells Wharf; Tower Hamlets planning record via the PlanIt national ACM search
  • (ACM candidates) HIGH - Survey of London, verbatim: ‘Designed by Jestico & Whiles, the scheme, when completed, will comprise seven large residential buildings’ and ‘At the riverside are two new nine-storey blocks, Chart House and Deck House (formerly Bridge and Wheelhouse), each comprising 70 apartments’. NAMING CAVEAT: Survey of London calls the pair Chart House and DECK House, formerly Bridge and Wheelhouse. Confirm block naming
  • Confidence: HIGH. Survey of London: ‘Designed by Jestico & Whiles’. Developer Kentish Homes (Keith Preston), receivership July 1989, relaunched by Halifax New Homes Services 1992. NAMING CAVEAT: Survey of London calls the pair Chart House and DECK House, ‘formerly Bridge and Wheelhouse’ - confirm which block is which
  • Workbook source(s): Master ACM building list (row 32); ACM 18m plus (row 32); ACM candidates (row 22)

Additional corroboration (Practices tab)

  • Jestico & Whiles - ORIGINAL design architect
    Basis: Survey of London vols 43-4: ‘Designed by Jestico & Whiles’. Note they also designed Aloft London ExCeL, which is NOT the Novotel

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