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Request reference number: 1602
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Summary of request
FOI request: Former Westferry Printworks: residential floor space and cost of school
This planning application was recently approved. Can you provide information not included in the GLA’s stage 3 report for the public hearing:
1. Estimated cost to the developer of building the school. (This a significant cost which limits the developer’s ability to provide affordable housing and other planning obligations)
2. The floor space taken up by the proposed 722 residential units, in sqm. Floor space sizes are provided for all other land uses on page 11 but not for the residential units. (This figure must be known and is needed to calculate the Community Infrastructure Levy that this development would have paid if it hadn’t been exempt from Tower Hamlet’s local CIL).
3. Is there an estimated date for the completion of the S106 agreement? Presumably at this stage it's just by the deadline in the report - is that right?
4. Given that there is now a new mayor, presumably he doesn't have legal power to review S106 agreements for developments already approved? I ask because the details of some aspects covered in the stage 3 report's summary of planning obligations are left to be decided after approval.
5. Has the compensation to the Docklands Sailing and Water Sports Centre been finalised? If so what additional amount will they get - on top of the £506k in the report?
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FOIA 1602