The UK Secretary of State, Hazel Blears, has approved Coin Street Community Builders' proposals for a residential and leisure centre on London's South Bank. The Doon Street scheme will include a 144 metre high residential tower, public uses at ground level, a new town square with lift and stairs to Waterloo Bridge, a new headquarters for the Rambert Dance Company, a public swimming and indoor leisure centre as well as a new education/office building.
The UK Secretary of State, Hazel Blears, has approved Coin Street Community Builders' proposals for a residential and leisure centre on London's South Bank. The Doon Street scheme will include a 144 metre high residential tower, public uses at ground level, a new town square with lift and stairs to Waterloo Bridge, a new headquarters for the Rambert Dance Company, a public swimming and indoor leisure centre as well as a new education/office building.
'The scheme is not just about radically improving the environment of the South Bank but also delivering vital facilities which offer alternatives to those at risk of obesity, gang culture and unemployment,' said Iain Tuckett, group director, Coin Street Community Builders. 'In place of a car park we will have London's best public swimming and indoor leisure centre, the headquarters of Rambert Dance Company with its three dance studios, 329 new homes, a town square linked to Waterloo Bridge, possibly a new university faculty building and, across one road the National Theatre, and across the other awardwinning housing co-operatives!'
The scheme was designed by architects Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands and will be operated by Greenwich Leisure.
