[4K] Canary Wharf Drone Flight

[@skabbymuff111]

Absolutely STUNNING footage. Just gobsmacking. London is a completely different city to what I grew up in 20-30 years ago, it's fantastic!

[@wanderingmomentz]

Thankyou! Glad you enjoyed it 🙂

[@davidsivills3599]

Best part of London,more UK cities should look like this.

[@jamiearnott9669]

Great drone footage over site where once stood the world's largest port! Now my 2020s decade, this site is redevelopment to post-modern architecture with construction largely since the start of the Millennium. Incidental but easily walkable to where I've lived now in Greenwich over the last 20 years since the start of this millennium ! Incidentally this distance walkable perhaps easily under the Thames as one of the world's first tunnels ever walkable under a river!

[@wanderingmomentz]

Thanks mate! Awesome stuff 🙂

[@jontelee2005]

woww I can't wait to go there because I'm going to London soon with my mum and her boyfriend and my brother and we are going everywhere aha. amazing footage and beautiful shots! London is growing really really fast, faster than I thought 💙 5:10 JESUS I CANT BELIEVE THATS LONDON, WOW! I kinda wish that the city that I live in (York) has high-rises like these

[@djtrainspotter]

Yeah thats just east London, with Stratford in the background :)

[@2020-c1p]

if york gets skyscrapers , it might be like new york , thats what it will be , the NEW york , i will spray paint the word NEW on the YORK road signs some night and blame it on BANKSY

[@jontelee2005]

@@2020-c1p ah yeah very true that is

[@wanderingmomentz]

Thats awesome mate hope you have a good trip! And lol new new york 🤣

[@jontelee2005]

@@wanderingmomentz 😭😭

[@cooper_sch]

Great videos! Do you need to get a permission to fly in Canary Wharf/Isle of Dogs areas? If so, how do you do it? Thank you!

[@fabiosuttle5926]

Great Footage, what drone are you using, pal?

[@wanderingmomentz]

Thankyou mate, and it's shot on the DJI Mini 2 (upgrading to the DJI Mini 3 Pro soon though)

[@comelytravel]

Nice video

[@wanderingmomentz]

Thankyou! 🙂

[@mrlawilliamsukwarmachine4904]

Did you get any hassle while filming? I filmed the other day in that park in Canada Square, by the Citigroup building. I was in Woolwich prior, where I used the app on my mini 3 RC to request permission to fly. When I was in Canada Sq, the app said ‘take off approved’ so I set max height to 58M and had a little fly around!!

[@wanderingmomentz]

Didnt get any hassle while filming lol I'd be careful flying in canada square though 🤣 hope you had a good flight! Thanks for watching!

[@lukatayl]

You have to do the Battersea redevelopment in October once its done, and also Greenwich around the O2 has quite a few new developments

[@wanderingmomentz]

I will get over there asap!!

[@djtrainspotter]

Excellent!!

[@wanderingmomentz]

Thanks mate!

[@lweendoemmanuel1133]

Can’t believe I get to call this home! Amazing footage! How’d you get permission to fly around here, isn’t it a major restricted fly zone?

[@wanderingmomentz]

Thankyou, and I didnt get permission... wasnt aware I needed it lol

[@lweendoemmanuel1133]

@@wanderingmomentz 😂😂😂 either way stunning work!

[@wanderingmomentz]

Haha, thankyou! 🙂

[@Steve_McMillen]

To think that most of the tall buildings you're seeing in this video were completed after 2015! Imagine how different the skyline is going to look by 2025!

[@wanderingmomentz]

Cant wait to see what its like in future! Thanks for watching 🙂

[@teviottilehurst]

What's the highest tower here? And are there any more towers scheduled to be built in this area? Really impressive considering only 30 years ago Canary Wharf had only one skyscraper.

[@djtrainspotter]

1 Canada Square tower is 774ft 53 office floors. Landmark Pinnacle is 765ft - 77 floors . . . Loads more planned!

[@richardwills-woodward]

1 Canada Square is 784ft (there is an elevated section that you enter at ground level with shopping mall and 3 skyscrapers are built out of this). The 774ft figure is if you're standing above the shopping mall. The entrance however is at ground and it is 784ft to the tip. The height was going to be much higher except for the idiots that chose to build City Airport at the last minute. Not only did this stump Canary Wharf but it also put a ceiling on the City too of 1,000ft AOD or 951ft from ground level. The Shard is 1,026ft AOD (1,016ft above ground) due as I understand it, to a discrepancy.

[@teviottilehurst]

@@djtrainspotter thanks for the information .

[@djtrainspotter]

@@richardwills-woodward Yeah depends what websites one uses, all have a different AGL/AOD height for almost everything, unsurprisingly, being the internet eh.

[@richardjames3446]

@@djtrainspotter Landmark Pinnacle is at 5:34. The 3rd highest (dark tower in the middle) is South Quay Plaza at 215m.

[@edgarpoinsot5502]

In some aspects Canary Wharf is better than the - La Defense - of Paris. Principally in its more - like Manhattan - buildings. But La Defense have more open perspectives.

[@OnlyAnOpinion20]

I would say more like Hong Kong .

[@Imrankhan-ds1cf]

Best view ever love it if this was night view it would have been next level from u.k

[@wanderingmomentz]

Thankyou mate! Night video coming soon ;)

[@RedroomStudios]

try flying early or late in the day when the light is nicer and less harsh.

[@neilgennery2871]

It's the same as the square mile. Can't go higher than than the shard due to airport. How is it other cities go sky high 🤔🤔

[@richardwills-woodward]

Because they were stupid enough to build City Airport when they had the opportunity to build an entire piece of city from scratch!

[@thisguy976]

@@richardwills-woodward I can understand Canary Wharf with a limit on height, however, I don't understand the square mile limit? Surely the aeroplanes could just re-route away from the airspace over the square mile? Like I can imagine other buildings similar in height to the Shard should be allowed to be built there.

[@richardwills-woodward]

@@thisguy976 Because planes land into the wind. When the wind direction blows from the east, the planes at all airports change to landing from the west instead of the more common east. The planes' approach circles over the City and surrounding airspace at 2,000ft before descending to City on the glide path with specific planes that give special dispensation to fly over Canary Wharf at no less than 600ft above the tip of One Canada Square/804ft AOD (above ordinance datum which is average sea level). This is 1,000ft (or possibly 1,025ft given the Shard is 1,025ft AOD) but this is reduced to 1,000ft over the City due to a hill that the City is built on. The tallest building in the City will be 951ft (1,000ft AOD) and that will be (if it gets built) the replacement for one of the buildings next to the Bishopsgate Tower that has just finished at 912ft/962ft AOD. Heathrow is also an issue, as this is used to ensure that Heathrow glide paths can also go as low as 2,000ft when going east to west (the usual path of planes landing into Heathrow). But you could alter this, you cannot alter City Airport. The City is just too close to City Airport. Most planes require 1,000ft clearance or 600ft in City Airport's planes' case. Unless City Airport is closed, London's limit (just like Singapore) will be the Shard or 1,016ft AGL (above ground level). Seeing as the Shard sits on the lowest ground possible, the likelihood is around 950ft will be London's limit. However, that is the least of the issues - councils despise these heights anyway. Paddington 800ft skyscraper got canned due to 'height concerns' - we now have an unremarkable cube. Canary Wharf has Tower Hamlets council that [hate] Canary wharf with a passion. Very modest buildings get proposed for 784 ft like South quay Plaza - they chop it down to 704ft for absolutely no good reason. Very modest 500ft tower just got rejected for no reason at the south side of Millwall Dock. Another just got chopped down which was FEC's project that has got planning but went from 700-750ft to 650ft. As if at this location that makes a difference. It is infuriating that a skyscraper district can't just dream....at all. This is why you keep getting boxes in London. The costs and the fear of council rejection has just seen height deflation not inflation. The end aesthetic is blobs that can't 'soar' but just bloat and cram together. Tragic really.

[@Chris-pq3wp]

This feels like Mirrors edge

[@wanderingmomentz]

Funny you should say that, I love Mirror's Edge, the city on there is amazing! Thanks for watching 🙂

[@neilgennery2871]

The highest tower's only around 750 ft

[@djtrainspotter]

Cant go higher than 800ft on Isle Of Dogs coz of the airport.

[@shazanali692]

​@@djtrainspotter actually the expansion of the airport is on hold at the moment, with the new Elizabeth line opening, a think tank and the London assembly are actively thinking about closing the airport and using that whole area for housing, leisure and commerce, with no sightseeing routes and airport near I see that whole area of city airport which is 2miies long to be London's first superstructures zone, it be awesome and then maybe build a suspension bridge connecting the south of the river

[@richardwills-woodward]

784ft from ground/804ft AOD (from average river level).

[@Ultron-o3i]

@@shazanali692 so they can start building supertall ones?

[@Tony2438]

774 feet or 235 m

[@2020-c1p]

world class , this is what our towns and cities will look like not long from now , it has begun , the only way is up

[@christopherslack924]

Oh yeah re it going really bad….

[@billhosko7723]

mostly kinda bleak overalll.... little visual warmth. cold, cool and blase...