Plans for 500 student beds on Jewsons site signed off this week
AHMM鈥檚 plans for a 511-bed student accommodation scheme in Elephant & Castle have been approved by Lambeth council.
The 19,000sq m scheme for PBSA provider Unite Student will replace a Jewsons builders merchant at 6-12 Kennington with a main 16-storey building and adjacent lower rise blocks.
It will also contain a double-height industrial warehouse space and community space on its ground and first floors.
All buildings on the site, including the Jewsons warehouse and a vacant four-storey building formerly used as a college will be demolished.
Planning officers praised the 鈥渉igh quality鈥� design of the scheme and said the principle of a mixed-use development on the brownfield site is 鈥渁ccepted and regeneration is welcomed鈥�.
Unite Students had initially proposed that 35% of the student rooms would be affordable.
However, it is now proposing a payment in lieu of 拢2.71m to fund affordable housing in the borough due to 鈥渃oncerns in Lambeth and across London that the influx of similar PBSA applications in recent years may prevent other forms of housing, particularly conventional C3 housing, coming forward,鈥� according to council planning officers.
The project team for the scheme includes landscape architect LDA Design, planning consultant ROK, project manager Underwood Carpenter, structural and civil engineer Meinhardt, transport consultant Arup, refuse consultant WSP and daylight consultant GIA, with Kanda on communications.
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