UK: Architecture firm Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) has submitted plans for a development above Southwark tube station.
The site previously had planning consent for an office complex.
AHMM’s reworked plans for developer Helical and Places for London, Transport for London’s (TfL’s) property company, are two-storeys shorter than the office-led scheme, which secured planning approval in 2021 but was not delivered.
The updated proposals now includes nine and 15-storey buildings providing purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) and affordable homes.
If approved, the scheme will deliver 429 PBSA bedrooms in the larger building and 44 affordable units in the smaller building. Retail or café use is also earmarked for the ground-floor space.
The PBSA scheme retains the existing station entrance, designed in 1999 by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard for the Jubilee Line extension.
