{"id":77676,"date":"2020-06-16T08:09:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T07:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=77676"},"modified":"2020-06-16T08:09:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T07:09:30","slug":"mixed-use-scheme-southwark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/mixed-use-scheme-southwark\/77676\/","title":{"rendered":"Go-ahead for U+I &#038; TfL\u2019s mixed-use scheme in Southwark"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uandiplc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U+I<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/tfl.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Transport for London<\/a> (TfL) have been given the green light to transform an empty Southwark site into a new mixed-use scheme<\/h2>\n<p>U+I and Transport for London (TfL) have been given the go-ahead by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southwark.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">London Borough of Southwark<\/a> to deliver a new mixed-use scheme that will provide new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/tag\/affordable-housing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">affordable homes<\/a>, shops, retail and workspace on the empty site on Southwark Street.<\/p>\n<p>The planning consent also secures the future of the historic Crossbones Graveyard and Memorial Garden.<\/p>\n<p>Under an agreed package of support delivered through the development, TfL and U+I have committed to working with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bost.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bankside Open Spaces Trust<\/a> (BOST), <a href=\"http:\/\/crossbones.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crossbones Forum<\/a> and the Friends of Crossbones to safeguard Crossbones Graveyard and Memorial Garden. This includes a promise to not develop on Crossbones Graveyard and Memorial Garden and to deliver enhancements and a management plan, including longer opening hours and funding.<\/p>\n<h3>The plans<\/h3>\n<p>The proposals, designed by local architect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alliesandmorrison.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Allies and Morrison<\/a>, will transform the site near London Bridge station and Borough Market from an under-utilised space to a local cultural and social hub where people will want to live, work and visit.<\/p>\n<p>36 new homes will also be provided within the development, with 50% affordable, including 12 new homes available at social rent.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting between Southwark Street, Redcross Way and Union Street, the mixed-use scheme will create a new commercial centre for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/bim-delivers-southwark-regeneration-area\/43809\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Southwark<\/a>, providing more than 200,000 sq ft of commercial space for restaurants, caf\u00e9s, retail opportunities and flexible small business workspace.<\/p>\n<p>The site will create more than 1,850 jobs once complete.<\/p>\n<p>These lanes will be lined with shops, caf\u00e9s, restaurants and market stalls to bring activity during the day and evening. Smaller retail units are also included to support and encourage accommodate small independent traders.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be a new community garden and play space for members of the public to socialise as well as more new cycle spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Landmark Court has been designed as a varied collection of contemporary brick buildings, sensitive to the scale of their surroundings and full of references to the Victorian industrial and commercial architecture of the area.<\/p>\n<p>15 Southwark Street, which dates from the 1860s, will also be restored as part of the development.<\/p>\n<h3>\u2018Final piece of the puzzle\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>Richard Upton, chief development officer at U+I, said:\u00a0\u201cThese plans represent the final piece of the puzzle on the Southwark Street.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis site has been a blot on an otherwise vibrant and successful High Street, but now we can bring forward a development that will stitch the streetscape back together, providing contemporary workspace, homes, shops and restaurants, all set within a carefully considered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/planning-system-covid19\/75321\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">masterplan<\/a> that reinstates the medieval lanes and yards of Southwark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the outset we were also determined to secure the future of Crossbones, which really is one of London\u2019s extraordinary hidden places.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur plans ensure it will not only be preserved, but enhanced, so that more Londoners can discover its history and honour its continued purpose as a place to remember and respect those on the margins of society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chris Townend, head of property development at TfL, commented:\u00a0\u201cWe are excited to have been given the go-ahead to start delivering our plans in Southwark, which will create a vibrant hub for the community, with buzzing market stalls, cafes, restaurants and workspaces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plans will deliver new much-needed affordable homes while preserving Crossbones Graveyard and Memorial Garden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Gilsenan, CEO of Bankside Open Spaces Trust (BOST), said:\u00a0\u201cU+I and TfL have worked closely and collaboratively with the Crossbones Forum and BOST to take forward the community-led vision of a peaceful green space in the heart of Borough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to see the improvements to come and welcome many more visitors to this hidden gem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alex Wraight, partner at Allies and Morrison, added:\u00a0\u201cOur design work started with a genuine and acute appreciation of the value of the local character.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLandmark Court&#8217;s history is a complex and fascinating tapestry encompassing market gardening, religion, extremes of poverty and wealth, brewing, manufacturing, coaching inns, merchant trade, markets, fairs, transport infrastructure and artistic creativity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMulti-layered and created through centuries of successive boom and bust, it is a precious resource to be treated with immense care and dignity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur scheme seeks to build upon these incredible assets with an outward-looking, public realm driven masterplan that knits into the surrounding urban fabric.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn apparently informal cluster of buildings is carefully tuned to define a richness of spaces, a fitting contemporary response, in their scale and character, to the beautifully robust mercantile buildings of the area.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U+I and Transport for London (TfL) have been given the green light to transform an empty Southwark site into a new mixed-use scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[666,676,997,572,947,649,567,669],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-77676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-affordable-housing","8":"tag-construction","9":"tag-development","10":"tag-housebuilding","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-planning-applications","13":"tag-planning-system","14":"tag-regeneration"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Go-ahead for U+I &amp; 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