Canary Wharf deal on Wood Wharf ‘masterplan’

PUBLISHED: 21:15 29 April 2013 | UPDATED: 21:15 29 April 2013

A top architect and urban planning practice has been signed up in a deal to complete the masterplan for the massive 20-acre Wood Wharf development next to Canary Wharf.

Allies & Morrison has been appointed by Canary Wharf Group to lead the scheme and come up with the final blueprint for the mixed residential and commercial site which moves towards a planning application to Tower Hamlets council later this year.

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