CLS Holdings plc has announced that Lambeth Council Planning Committee has passed a resolution to grant an amendment to the existing planning permission on the Company’s mixed-use development scheme at Vauxhall Square, SW8, adding over 100,000ft² (10,000m²) of office accommodation in place of a hotel.
The development replaces a four-star hotel with 108,586ft² (10,088m²) of grade A offices, increasing the office element in the scheme to over 350,000ft² (32,516m²), or 30% in an area of London undersupplied with office space, and within one-third of a mile of the new US and Dutch embassies currently under construction.
The amended 1.6 million ft² (151,700m²) scheme will comprise 454 apartments in two 50-storey towers and 124 affordable apartments, 353,300ft² (32,820m²) of offices, a 186-suite hotel, 39,800ft² (3,697m²) of retail, a multi-screen cinema and a hostel. The scheme also includes a 454-bedroom student block, the land for which was sold to Urbanest, the specialist student accommodation developer and operator, in December.
