The Mayor of London has given a guarded thumbs up to Conran and Partners plans for student housing on 61-63 Great Suffolk Street in the London borough of Southwark.
Developed by Q Developments and reaching ten storeys in height, the plans feature the demolition of a number of warehouses and the construction of 671 student beds, 2,230 square metres of commercial and retail space, plus fifteen disabled parking spaces and 362 cycle spaces. In addition the wonderfully named Grotto Podium Park will experience a number of improvements paid for by the developer to help advance public amenity.
The scheme features two blocks sitting on the site, one with a compact footprint in the western corner that rises ten storeys, and another one that stretches from west to east along the majority of the site with Pocock Street to its north although the architect has attempted to split it up into three separate visual sections thanks to the cladding treatment employed.
This second block has a standard roof line eight floors above the ground, although on top of this are three two storey pods that will have the penthouse apartments as these days rich students expect luxury living, even in halls. In between will be roof gardens.
The only two elements of the project that the Mayor of London's office doesn't support are the lack of a funding for Crossrail because as with all major developments they require a contribution, and secondly the developer has yet to show a specific university that is interested in the accommodation and would like its students there.
This is however a speculative student development, although securing a specific university, or alternatively bringing a university housing specialist like UNITE into play will resolve this problem, and also provide the developer with the confidence that what they have planned is a success so they can make the Crossrail contribution.
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