Tower near Stratford station set to reach 36-storeys now on the rise

Another week and another post about a Stratford tower under construction. Hard to keep up I know.

This one is a student block with a sixth form college on site at the former Jubilee House.

It sits pretty much halfway between the main Stratford station and little old Stratford High street station which I covered the other day, as that’s seen its best year for passenger journeys in some years. Little surprise really.

So what can we expect here?

Well, in terns of design its a pretty standard box as is common in London. Can’t we have some more interesting crowns, ever?

Still, it’s far better than what did stand there. Jubilee House was not a looker.

The above image shows the tower is merely half the eventual plan with a neighbouring block on the cards.

It’ll top out at 36-storeys and include 716 student rooms. The lower five floors are set for the sixth form London Academy of Excellence currently based within Broadway House in Stratford.

At 36 floors it’ll make quite an impressions and provide yet more passengers for nearby stations. Another view of the rising block can be seen here taken the other day from the DLR.

In the foreground can be a tower block at Carpenter’s Estate.

Earlier this year plans were approved to demolish much of the estate (though one tower block is being refurbished) which will increase overall homes to 2,152.

So as ever, everywhere you look around Stratford is a new development rising or proposed.

And on that note, I spotted a digger on site at another student tower recently approved beside the bridge heading to Westfield.

It looks like preliminary site investigation is underway.

When that is built it’ll rise above its nearby student tower neighbour currently on the up topping out at 41-storeys.

Running a site alone takes time and a fair bit of money. Adverts are far from enough to cover it and my living costs as a private renter.