Key Details

Overview

30 Minories is a new mixed-use development in Aldgate, City of London EC3.

The scheme will offer a 14,000 m2 uplift in high-quality, sustainable office floor space, along with a new cultural hub for local communities and visitors, delivering social inclusivity.

Designed by PLP Architecture (22 Bishopsgate), the proposals see replacing St Clare House, an old postwar block, with a new office building, featuring landscaped terraces, urban greening, as well as the modern, Grade A office space.

The site at 30 Minories includes the Writers’ House, a Victorian warehouse building, which will be retained and repurposed, as a self-contained community hub. The hub will include an archaeological and cultural centre at its ground floor levels, equipped with new retail space and with affordable workspace provided above.

Remains of the enigmatic Abbey of St Clare, a little-understood medieval religious foundation, are known to survive within the Writers’ House and are predicted to be uncovered during construction. The site also includes the eastern Roman cemetery which may have rich archaeological potential. Appropriate artefacts will be displayed in a bespoke, new public exhibition, free to access seven days a week.

The developers have pledged to enhance the local public realm, by transforming the car park at Sheppy Place into a new green public square.

The scheme is targeting BREEAM Outstanding, WiredScore Platinum, WELL Platinum and NABERS UK.