Summary:
- Southwark Council’s planning committee unanimously approved AJ100 practice AHMM’s revised 473-bed student accommodation scheme above Southwark Station, developed by Helical and TfL’s Places for London, following the station’s recent Grade II listing by DCMS and Historic England.
- The scheme features a part-nine and part-15-storey building with 44 affordable units and 429 student bedrooms, alongside ground-floor retail, replacing a previously consented but undelivered 17-storey office-led development on the same site.
- Places for London highlights a significant PBSA undersupply in Greater London, with 93,700 purpose-built student beds serving a student population more than two-and-a-half times larger, underscoring the strategic importance of this development.
Original article:
