Summary:
- Scape has submitted plans for a 45-storey student accommodation tower at 229-235 Southwark Bridge Road in Elephant and Castle, designed by Morris + Company to deliver 798 units and 851 bed spaces, expanding the area’s emerging high-rise cluster.
- The development would replace the mid-20th century Pocock House and retain two locally listed 19th-century buildings, which will be refurbished to provide approximately 250 sq m of office or community space integrated into the tower’s podium.
- Positioned next to a railway viaduct, the scheme includes a six-storey podium topped by 39 storeys of accommodation, with 850 sq m of shared amenity space and 119 sq m of public realm, contributing to the ongoing densification and regeneration of Southwark’s high-rise corridor.
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