TfL previously had plans approved in 2022
Fresh plans have been submitted for a development on top of Southwark Underground station.
Helical and Places for London, the property company for Transport for London, are proposing to build a 15 storey student accommodation tower.
The pair agreed a joint venture partnership in late summer 2023 for the redevelopment of three over-station sites at Southwark, Bank and Paddington.
Located on the corner of Blackfriars Road and The Cut, the Southwark site had an existing planning permission, secured in July 2022, for a 17-storey commercial office building designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM).
There was also a proposal for a new 14 storey tower comprising 25 new affordable homes designed by Bell Phillips architects,
The replacement PBSA scheme, also designed by AHMM, is a complete departure from the previous designs and will comprise 429 students room and double height amenity spaces running all the way up the building.
Instead of subsidising a proportion of the student room, the developer proposes to meet affordable requirements by providing 44 conventional affordable homes.
These will be provided in a standalone nine-storey building on land west of Joan Street.
A community space is proposed on the southern part of the ground floor of this building, facing out onto The Cut.
The project team includes Gardiner & Theobald, Rapleys and Aecom. Other firms involved include Heyne Tillett Steel, Studio GB, Hoare Lea, Curtins and Mace.
Southwark station was designed by Sir Richard MacCormac of MacCormac, Jamieson & Pritchard Architects and completed in 1999.
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