Steel Shard will give Paddington a boost

Architect Renzo Piano and developer Sellar Property Group have unveiled plans for a steel-framed 65-storey, £1bn mixed-use scheme for Paddington, west London.

The scheme at 31 London Street has already been dubbed the ‘skinny Shard’, as the team previously worked on the capital’s tallest building the Shard.

Chairman of Sellar Property Group Irvine Sellar, said: “Paddington is a fantastic location but it is stuck in a Fifties time-warp. We intend to create a place for people to go, where they will want to live, work, eat and shop.”

At 224m tall, the scheme will be London’s fourth tallest building and will contain apartments, offices, restaurants and a roof garden.

The development is yet to get planning permission but according to Sellar the development will create more than 200 new homes, and hundreds of jobs.

It will stand in a one acre former Royal Mail sorting office site between Paddington station and St Mary’s hospital bought for £111M last October.