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UK: Developer Bywater has secured planning consent to demolish a Royal Mail sorting office in south London, to make way for a 146-studio coliving block with 146 studio flats.
The Kennington and Walworth Delivery Office at 111-123 Crampton Street will be knocked down after Southwark Council’s Planning Committee formally approved a planning application earlier this week.
Bywater will deliver a five- and six-storey building on the site, which will include a publicly accessible coworking space and a coffee bar. The building will include a gym, yoga studio and cycle store. The building’s operator, Greystar, intends to introduce activities such as pottery classes and arts and crafts within the communal areas.
Royal Mail will leave the site at Crampton Street in July 2027, and plans to move its Kennington and Walworth operations to the Southwark and Rotherhithe Delivery Office on Mandela Way.
No on-site affordable housing has been included in the plans. Bywater will instead make a payment in lieu of £6.643 million to Southwark Council which equates to 35 per cent affordable housing of the development.
Joe Jack Williams, head of regenerative strategy at Bywater, told committee members each studio will contain an en-suite bathroom and a small kitchenette, while communal areas will enable “a community to perform within the building”.
Highlights:
- Developer Bywater has secured planning consent to demolish a Royal Mail sorting office in south London, to make way for a 146-studio coliving block with 146 studio flats
- Bywater will deliver a five- and six-storey building on the site, which will include a publicly accessible coworking space and a coffee bar
- The building will include a gym, yoga studio and cycle store
- The building’s operator Greystar intends to introduce activities such as pottery classes and arts and crafts within the communal areas
