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Speaker1:
All those participating in this event, you're participating, our question answer consultation event for the plans to deliver 50 redeveloped fifty six to fifty eight March to provide co-living and co-working space. My name is John. I work for your shout. We're organizing community consultation for this project, working alongside Olympian homes and the rest of the project team. This is the third of three question and answer events where we'll present the scheme and then give you the opportunity to ask questions to the team. The events will last between 30 and 90 minutes, depending on the number of questions that you ask. You can ask as many questions as you like, but please keep them short and direct so the team can answer them in the best manner possible. There are three ways to ask questions if you registered to attend this event. The best ways to submit questions in the box below the video. If you need help registering or submitting questions, you can call our helpline on 800 five one one eight two two five. That help lines open throughout the event. You can also submit video questions on the video questions page as well as asking questions. We also want to share your views about the project. You can do this by hitting the Share Your Views button along the top bar or scroll down the page that you're on now and click the button there. And though go introduce the team members who are taking part today. So from the architects, we've got Hugh and Shirley. So Hugh, a few words from you.

Speaker2:
Hi, my name is good morning. My name is Hugh Jones. I'm a directory architect, architects and I've been involved in this project for the last 18 months.

Speaker1:
They and Shirley.

Speaker3:
Morning, my name's Shirley Hummel. I'm the lead project architect for the scheme.

Speaker1:
Ok, thank you from the planners. We've got Gillian Chilean's on the call right now. She's I'm sure she'll say a few words later on from Node. We've got a Neil and Mia, so I emailed you and say a few words and then will hand over to Neil.

Speaker4:
Yeah. Good morning. Well, I'm from Node will be operating the building once complete the deal.

Speaker1:
A few words from you about co-living and nodes.

Speaker4:
Yes. Hi, Neal Kara. Thanks for having us today. Founder and CEO and excited to talk more about the project.

Speaker1:
That's fantastic. And from the developer Olympian homes, we've got James.

Speaker3:
It was this morning. James Lindsay is development director for Olympian. We are the developer and applicant for the scheme.

Speaker2:
We've been working in this, obviously since conception.

Speaker1:
Okay, thanks then. And who's going to take us through the presentation?

Speaker2:
One. If I could see the presentation just.

Speaker1:
It's in the output screen now

Speaker2:
Very much was mentioned, surely, and I've been working on this project since its inception 18 months ago. We've been working with Bilibid Holmes, the developer node, the operator. And in that period, we've had three pre-application discussions with Tower Hamlets and also met with the Galia to understand how a design project is compliant with the necessary policies. So what is co-living? Well, we believe it's an innovative living solution that provides an integrated community to live, work, play and grow. It combines the ideas of traditional house sharing with additional amenities, and these amenities can be exciting things like cinemas, gymnasiums, wellbeing spaces, co-working spaces, things like that. And we benchmark this scheme against other similar developments to receive approval in London and the surrounding area. And what differentiates this scheme is that we're providing a great deal more amenity space compared with comparable schemes not only with co-living, but also with traditional housing schemes. There's a planning approval on the adjacent site and where something like six metres squared per person additional space. So we're providing high quality space isn't cost effective, affordable model for an integrated private social and workspaces balanced and varied lifestyle. So let's understand what Nord's philosophy is. The six tenets to note philosophy big trustees care, global mindedness, design, thinking and authenticity, and we believe authenticity is the main driver behind this idea and concept of creating a real community. So let's understand how that community works. The scheme is made up of seven of 95 co-living studios in community clusters of 57.

Speaker2:
We understand the challenges of creating an authentic community with this large number of people, and in doing so, we've decided and thought of as sensible to break that community down to more legible clusters and families of 50 cent students split over three floors, but also the ability to have access to communal amenity at the upper and lower levels. What's different about this scheme, if we go on to the next slide, is that. Whereas typical co-living units of developments in towers have only have amenities, space at the top and bottom of the towers. We're differentiating this offer, but avoiding the smaller cluster communities of 50 cents to just split over three levels access to their own private kitchen dining and living spaces up those levels. So this is creating a real sense of community at the micro level and also as part of the macro level. Let's understand how the co-living family is broken down in the holistic and coming up from the base level. We've got individual studios for people, for one person. Typically, those studios are made up of en suite bathrooms, a double bed, a kitchenette, space dining space, living space and critically also what's important as Canada. The pandemic and understanding of people living like this is the need for private workspaces, as well as the ability to access a co-working space. So this shared amenity over three floors, we got fifty seven residents accessing space. If you look at the image on the top left, this is the living space.

Speaker2:
And they've got the private stairs linking between the three spaces of kitchen living and dining. But there's also a common amenity at the top and the bottom of the building, we go into that in a bit more detail later on. But the standard of 95 residents have got access to this. The Sky Lounge at the top of the building is an exciting atrium space with three storeys linked, providing co-living space with a variety of uses. But was also important about this development is the need for the co-living to integrate with the local community. So we've got the ability for the local neighborhood and the general public to access this building. We've got a cafe on the west side of the building, allowing the public to access it and also an integrated co-working facility which the local neighbourhood can use first. It's really integrating the sense of authenticity of the co-living community with the local community as well. Listen to Stern, what this looks like on the ground and first floor. You've got the co-working space to the north are building accessed from Marsh Wall. You've got the co-living lounge for the co-living community. We've got the cafe to the west of the building along the bottom left in which which is accessible by the public as well. More pragmatic things like parcels and rooms and post boxes at the ground floor for the community and more exciting things like cinemas, gymnasiums, student wellness studios on the first floor.

Speaker2:
We're not only providing internal amenities space, but we think it's critical and in line with policy also that we provide quality external space at the top of the building. We're providing this excellent outdoor space, which is highly landscaped and provides for a variety of uses. Let's understand the location of the site and development. If you look at the left hand image, the aerial view shows our site highlighted in red and it's in a transition zone to the south of Marshall or between Canary Wharf to the north. And you can see one kind of square and the lower to the south. You've got the lower grade, lower scale developments of middle wall. On the right hand side, in the top, you can see that the existing building is really providing a physical and visual barrier to permeability in this area, and it's really the site is dominated at the moment by car parking, and we've got to make a difference now with our proposals for landscaping this area. This site is within an area of high regeneration and growth. These are some of the buildings that are either being built up planning permission or in the process of being constructed. Images three, four, five and six are the buildings which are in the immediate vicinity and neighbouring our development site, and they range in height between twenty three and sixty five storeys. If you look at this, you can see the site in the red, you've got the pink building next door, which is 54 Miles Wall, which received planning permission in 2018.

Speaker2:
This is for standard residential development, with some social housing attached to it and then the developments to the East, which is a site in the fire which is 65 storeys high, and then Phoenix Heights, which is to the south, which has already been built at 23 storeys. Most important in dialogue with the design of this is the need for this development to comply with policy and provide excellence and quality of architecture and oversight sets within a cluster of existing tall buildings and emerging tall buildings. What's important to us, a policy that we add to the vitality of that streetscape and variety is the importance of creating this crest where so we're not just providing a uniform to our buildings on the same scale, but it's contributing to some diversity. If we understand this in three dimensional context, you can see Canary Wharf to the North, which is already a dense development. As I mentioned earlier, we're in a transition zone where we're contributing to an emerging cluster of tall buildings and policy tellers and guidance tell us we should be no more than 160 meters high in this location. And we're below 150 meters to maintain the visual relationship with one Canada square, which is the dominant building in this cluster. It's not just about tall buildings, what our development can contribute at street level to to the community. And if you can remember the photographs of the existing building, it's providing a physical and visual barrier to movement around this space and also is dominated by a car park.

Speaker2:
No, the major benefit we see of this development is our ability to improve greatly the public realm surrounding the building. We positioned the building conscious of that to enable us to provide a really nice pocket park to the east of the development of must make a road and more public realm to the West and allow if you can see the north or south public pedestrian movement to the north, to the south, which is currently prohibited by the existing building. The public realm to the West was accessed by the Green Arrow to the Orange Space, which is the public cafe to the north, by the blue arrow, to the co-living space. So the co-working space, which is accessible by the public and then the co-living space on the pink, which is for the private residence of the co-living community. If you notice, the purple line around the building ignores the fact that it's a transparent space at the lower level, providing activity and animation to the streetscape, which currently is isn't available to us, and we've been in dialogue with the highway authority via transport consultants. And the most appropriate place to service this building is of being straight with the red arrow. Conscious of the importance of understanding the impact of a new development in an emerging cluster of tall buildings and its impact on existing buildings, we've been careful to understand the proximity of our building to emerging buildings 54 miles to the West on existing buildings like Phoenix Heights to the South.

Speaker2:
And the next slide will demonstrate that we've seen and looked at three dimensional impact of the visual relationship between our building and surrounding. So you can see we've taken views at different levels within the toe and the right time, so you can see the graph there to understand the relationship between our building and the surrounding developments. And we're confident that our scheme, the way it is configured and the way it's orientated with the living spaces, that we will not compromise the privacy or overlooking of surrounding buildings. So does our building look like at street level? If you can see we've. Taking an architectural language which borrows from surrounding context, but it's distinct at the same time, we want an architecture and building which contributes to the vitality of this cluster of tall buildings. We've been careful to work with the authorities, stunned how that works from a design compliance point of view with policy also. On the bottom right, image shows a CGI of what this building will look like looking west along Marsh Wall and you can see Phoenix Heights to the south and beyond. There's a 65 a storyteller for our story. Our building is 46 at the moment. Just to understand how the building is configured, you can see typically on the bottom left hand side, as we mentioned earlier, you've got typical floor plates of 19 students per floor of different sizes, each with access via the core to the kitchen living dining spaces.

Speaker2:
I think what differentiates this building to compile the co-living space is the amount of amenity space that we provide, and you can see the sky lounge space in the bottom three images and the ground floor and first floor space is providing a lot of amenity space to this community and to the general public and local community also. More pragmatic issues, as I mentioned, the servicing of the buildings to the south of being street, accessing the bins through ground floor level, which is brings bins to the street level via lifts and also we're providing 425 site storage for the co-living community. Most important in this regard, we're providing variety and choice, so a large proportion of believe 40 percent of the cycles we are providing, if the local living community do not have their own bike, they have the ability via nodes ups to hire their own foldable bike via the lockable storage facility in the basement. In more detail, looking at the ground and first floor, you can see some of the visuals that showed the interior designers of produced. You see the reception on the top image and then looking from the cold living space via the spiral stairs to the reception on the spiral staircase takes the co-living community to a co-living lounge on the upper floor.

Speaker2:
And a ground floor is where you can see the yellow space to the left hand image on the bottom. And that represents the cafe, which has open accessible doors onto the external public realm, which will have external seating as well, so it's accessible by the public. I think what really differentiates and distinguishes this development in terms of quality is what we're doing at the top of this building, with the Sky Lounge providing a three storey atrium space and high quality co-living and co-living spaces in a variety of uses. Which themselves link to the external landscaped roof garden, as mentioned earlier. What's been a driver in this development has been quality of the 19 stooges per floor. There are seven different types of providing variety and choice to the call of residence, and each of those has access to the kitchen living dining space. You can see in the white space and the top of the drawing. Importantly, 10 percent of the studios are accessible for people with mobility issues and is represented by Typekit Typekit, which are the origin blue spaces on a table. So in the final slide, we see what those studio spaces are like the typical studio of ranging in size. As mentioned, the double bed kitchenette, dining space, living space and co-working space. And then the enhanced studios for people with mobility issues on the right hand side demonstrates what additional spaces are required for those mobility needs. Thank very much. I hope that gives you an overview of the development.

Speaker1:
Yes. So thank you. I don't know, Shirley, whether you have anything to add to that, but I'm sure we can invite you to questions later on. We're not going to take questions from the residents. A reminder The best way to ask questions during the event is to submit them in the box below the vigil. If you need help registering or submitting questions, you can call our helpline on 800 five one one eight two two five. So our first question is going to be to Gillian from the planner, which VP9 and it's about infrastructure. So Gillian, there's no shortage of infrastructure in the Isle of Dogs, particularly around Marsh War, with as many more schemes such as 30 Marsh Royal Enzyme has 54 Marsh on. Sadly, what you're going to do to solve the lack of water pressure, white paper, wide pavements, supermarkets, health centre, etc.. Leave it to you.

Speaker5:
Thank you, John, and good morning, everyone. Yes, obviously we're very aware of the development team and project team are very aware of outstanding issues within the Isle of Dogs related to water pressure. The architects and the developer are supported by a wider consultant team, and Apex, one of the consultants, has had started initial discussions with Thames Water and that will continue through the development stage and construction. And that information will form part of what's called a utility statement, which will be submitted in support of the application alongside the utility statement. They'll also be in response to the neighbourhood plan that came forward last year. We will be submitting an infrastructure impact assessment and that looks at all of those matters. So it looks that sort of raw infrastructure such as water, but it also looks at matters such as health care schools, of which given the nature of this game, it's co-living product. There won't be children at this, at the development, so there's no demand on school places. It'll also look at the local highway and obviously discussions have been had with Tower Hamlets Highways Department, so all of those factors are being taken into consideration. We are aware of the sensitivities and the importance of them to the local neighbourhood, and details will be provided and addressed in the application. I think the only thing then further to add is, of course, as part of the development prior to commencement of the scheme, the developer will pay what's called CIL, so a community infrastructure levy and that will be payable to local infrastructure projects as identified by Tower Hamlets in consultation with local residents and businesses.

Speaker1:
Hey, thanks. And staying with you just really to follow up, you mentioned that you consulted Thames Water. Have you consulted the other day other statutory bodies like London Fire Brigade? I'm sure that's one that people are very conscious of at the moment. So you have consulted all the statutory undertakers?

Speaker5:
Yes, sir. Initial discussions I had with all of those parties and will be developed through the course of the detailed design stage as well. They will all be statutory consultees as well at Tower Hamlets consults as part of their determination of the application. Turning specifically in terms of London Fire Brigade alongside London Fire Brigade and a new requirement last year came out and the Health and Safety Executive will also be consulted. So in terms of matters particularly related to fire, it's covered by the two statutory bodies there. So the HST, the Health Safety Executive, as well as the London Fire Brigade.

Speaker1:
Thank you, John. Ok, thanks. I've got a question for Aneel now, which is a fifty fifty seven people sharing one shared living space seems an awful lot. Is there real demand for this type of living? So, Neil, we can talk about about your other projects and success elsewhere?

Speaker4:
Absolutely. So a bit of an introduction on Node we started node six years ago are here based in London, but have projects around the world Spain, Ireland, here in the UK and North America. What I can say generally about co-living concepts around the world is that most of them are 90 to 100 percent occupied around the world. So I think that's a testament to the fact that residents that are younger at an earlier stage of life renting in an urban setting are really looking for three things a cost effective solution that gives them the amenities of co-working, fitness centre, wellness centre, outdoor space, so high quality of life and an aspirational product. But they have a budget. So so we're trying to beat that. They want to connect with people we call their company node because it's about being this connecting point. So creating that community where you can know each other and interact is important. And that's partly what's driving the idea of having three floors interconnected to create a smaller community within a larger community and and on the point of fifty seven people sharing. There's different options we could have had on the scheme. We could have had one communal area per floor, which would have been 19 people sharing. However, that means the kitchen dining and living spaces would have been a lot less inspiring and interesting. Often that size of of if you factor in people are doing things during the day, there wouldn't be that many people at any one given time there. So that community becomes quite small and hard to sort of bump in by having fifty seven on three floors. We've got really inspiring dining area, an open plan kitchen that also allows people to eat and meet and socialise, as well as a living area that'll have TVs for people who want to watch movies or games or other lounge areas.

Speaker4:
So by having actually fifty seven together and we have residences around the world where there's actually about that number of communities, it's actually a great number to make sure that there's always someone in in the residential communal areas there and actually make sure the quality of those spaces can actually be better. But by sharing it across three floors, there are co-living buildings around the world that actually have one communal kitchen for five to seven hundred residents. So so this is in context, you know, allowing for a lot more amenity space actually per person. So, so and I think the final thing to say is the studio designs that we have are allowing for a lot more generous private space. So there are kitchenettes in there. So if you want to have a quick cook, a quick meal, you can have the ability to do that. You have small spaces. If you want to work from home and do a call and zoom like this, you can do that in your unit as well as the co-working spaces. So just recapping that, having generous space in the units are really important, but we feel that having actually a few more people sharing these communal areas is actually less than what other schemes do. But we think we can create really, really high quality, exciting spaces where people can just walk out on their floor onto this triple height community at their doorstep.

Speaker1:
Hey, thanks for staying with you, and you could just tell us some of the other cities you've been working in around the world.

Speaker4:
Absolutely. So starting here in Dublin, you know, outside of London, we have a project in Dublin where in four cities in North America, so Los Angeles, New York are opened and we have a few more opening in a few other cities soon. And then in Spain, we're in Madrid and Barcelona.

Speaker1:
Ok. Thank you. Next question is for Hugh White 46 stories aren't there enough tall buildings on the Isle of Dogs already?

Speaker2:
I think as you can see from the presentation, where an emerging regeneration, where the norm is becoming a cluster of tall buildings, so it would be an anomaly if if we had a smaller building in this location. And I think what is being sustainable is providing an appropriate density in an urban setting with excellent links to transport. We believe that the building has been designed to make sure it's an elegant single point building, but providing the appropriate height relative to surrounding developments as well, so it doesn't look incongruous in that setting.

Speaker1:
Okay. And staying with Hugh, with you, Hugh, and I think there's probably a slide that goes with this one. Has your design been influenced by other local buildings? And I think this

Speaker2:
Thing pops if you look at Slide

Speaker1:
17, I think isn't that?

Speaker2:
Maybe Slide 12. I think if you look at that, stop it. So inevitably, you're going to be influenced by the character of the era that you're developing within. But at the same time, we shouldn't be slavishly trying to plagiarize the the architecture, which the Romans who otherwise would be rather prosaic and boring. And you want to create something which is interesting and contributes to that vitality of architecture in the area. So yes, we have been influenced by surrounding buildings. I think in particular, perhaps our immediate neighbor, which is number four in this screen, which is 54 multiple and in dialogue with the authority. Also, they held this scheme to be one of appropriate architect in terms of its elegance and architectural style. So if we have borrowed from that, but made our own unique contribution to this, to this mosaic of architecture in this area.

Speaker1:
Hey, thank you. Now, I think this one is fun, and Neal, is there really a demand for this type of accommodation?

Speaker4:
Absolutely. As mentioned before, you know, we have projects around the world and they're all full. So even as we're coming out of the pandemic into an endemic, the need for people to have the right amenity provision for this next generation of renters that, like I said, I want an all inclusive offer. I want to have a gym, a wellness center, outdoor space, high quality, high design amenities around them, their significant high demand. The other thing that's really important is we're coming out of this period. A lot of residents have realized how important it is to connect and how important community is that being isolated for almost two years? And so building communities again node being that connection point where we bring people together is in really high demand, especially for people living in cities where you can be isolated. So again, the value proposition here is to provide all of these services at a discount to what someone would do if they were to rent their own studio and then have a co-working membership. A gym membership have to pay for utilities and by using the sharing economy, what we're able to do is give people these all these offerings at a better price. So we think that's part of creating the answer to that one. One of the answers and one of the solutions to this housing shortage and affordability crisis have.

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