Architect Wilkinson Eyre is designing a 46,450 m2 mixed-use scheme, including a 30-storey tower in Southwark, south London.

The complex, for developer Land Securities, is on land formerly owned by Sainsbury’s at 20 Blackfriars Road near the River Thames.

An application for the site is planned by the end of the year. The scheme expected to cost more than £100m.

Land Securities is working on three important sites in the Bankside area near the Tate Modern. In addition to the Blackfriars Road tower it is in the construction phase of the mixed-use Allies and Morrison-designed Bankside 123 development directly behind the Tate.

It is also planning a further tower nearby, designed by Richard Rogers Partnership and called Bankside 4. Designs for Bankside 4 are still being worked up but the tower will be at least 20 storeys.

Land Securities is looking at proposals to decant the affordable housing for Bankside 4 into the Blackfriars Road development.

Southwark council requires that 40% of residential developments be composed of affordable housing, and the developer may use the complex in Blackfriars Road to meet its quota.

Stuart Robinson, senior director of planning at CB Richard Ellis, is working as a consultant for Land Securities. He said that the developer wanted to give a coherent feel to all its developments in the Bankside area.