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NLA London Tall Buildings Survey 2022 News
25 Apr 2022
NLA London Tall Buildings Survey 2022 Guide
London Tall Buildings Survey Provides Snapshot of London?s Evolving Skyline
? New London Architecture (NLA) and Knight Frank launch ninth annual London Tall Buildings Survey

? New planning applications for tall buildings fell 13.3% in 2021 compared to 2020

? Record level of permissions granted for tall buildings last year, increasing by 26% in 2021 compared to 2020

? The pipeline of tall buildings is slowly decreasing, contracting by 1% YoY in 2021 from 587 to 583

? 109 tall buildings schemes are now actively under construction across the capital
? There is a continued shift towards outer London, with 88 tall buildings in Zones 3 and 4, and 41 in Zone 5

? Out of London?s 33 boroughs, 26 have a tall building pipeline

? 341 tall buildings currently have planning permission to go ahead and are awaiting construction, and a further 71 have been approved at Planning Committee but are yet to sign S106 agreements

? Nearly 82,000 new homes are estimated across London?s entire tall buildings pipeline, or a little under two years? worth of housing need based on GLA requirements of 52,000 new dwellings per annum

? Commercial buildings account for 13% of the total pipeline

? The data suggests that 2022 could be a bumper year for completions, with 46 tall buildings expected to comple...