The AJ100 practice’s 6-12 Kennington Road scheme, near Lambeth North underground station, includes industrial space, community space and student beds, and rises to 13 storeys across two towers and a linking podium building.
Consent was secured from Lambeth Council’s planning committee in a unanimous vote on Tuesday night (29 July).
AHMM’s proposals, for client Unite, include 2,241m² of industrial floorspace on the ground floor and mezzanine levels, which planning documents say could be divided into smaller units or be let as one entire unit.
A community space measuring 499m² will share the ground and mezzanine levels.
Student beds will be delivered as 35 per cent affordable, including a five per cent payment in lieu of offsite affordable housing, planning documents say.
Student space is earmarked for the ground and upper levels, with the majority (90 per cent) of rooms organised as clusters. The remaining 10 per cent are studios.
Delivery of the scheme involves demolition of light industrial buildings on the site, which is currently home to a builders merchant, as well as a vacant four-storey building.
King’s College London is the nominated partner for the student element of the development, which Lambeth’s planning officers had earlier recommended for approval.
A timeline for completion has yet to be set out.
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