Achieving planning consent for the c. 1 m sq ft residential-led mixed use Mount Pleasant scheme has been a culmination of strategic dexterity and considered execution over a number of technical, operational, legal, design and planning challenges.

The site straddles two London Boroughs. Among other property constraints, it sits atop Mail Rail tunnels, an underground river, and other subsoil infrastructure. It hosts Royal Mail core operations that cannot be disrupted. It is one of the largest undeveloped open sites in Central London. M3 led a wider property strategy and feasibility study that identified the potential to consolidate operations and accommodate future delivery of housing, employment and amenity space into the community. M3 navigated the team through a complex design and planning process that began with early and extensive consultations, through the adoption of the masterplan by both local authorities as Supplementary Planning Document and via the Mayor to settle determination with a resolution to grant at a public hearing.

With the multi-party s106 agreed, M3 worked with Royal Mail to prepare the site for development, leading the design of enabling works required for partial air rights development, resolution of outstanding property matters, and review of disposal and delivery strategies.