Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) has recently submitted new plans for a development above Southwark tube station, in central London, after previously being granted planning consent for an office complex.
AHMM’s reworked plans is for developer Helical and Places for London – Transport for London’s (TfL’s) property company.
The new scheme is two-storeys shorter than the office-led scheme, which secured planning approval in 2021 but was not delivered.
The updated proposals for the scheme now includes a nine and 15-storey building providing purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) and affordable homes.
If approved, the scheme would 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.
Places for London says there are 93,700 purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) bedrooms in Greater London – two-and-a-half times as many students as PBSA beds.
News of a redesign on the above-station development first appeared last summer, when a report to TfL’s land and property committee said project backers had recommended redesigning the scheme as a mixed-use PBSA and affordable housing scheme.
Like the 2021 plans, the PBSA scheme also retains the existing station entrance, designed in 1999 by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard for the Jubilee Line extension.
