Transport
Student accommodation could be built above Southwark Tube Station
TfL has revealed that it is considering dumping its approved office block scheme for the Southwark Tube Station site in favour of a student accommodation scheme.
Planning & Development
News about developments, planning applications, planning policy and related topics in North Southwark and North Lambeth.
Lambeth
Lambeth North hotel approved by planning inspector
A Government-appointed planning inspector has overturned Lambeth Council's decision to reject plans for an 186-bedroom hotel opposite Lambeth North Station.
Elephant & Castle
52 Elephant & Castle homes could lie empty for another two years
52 homes built as part of the Elephant & Castle regeneration programme have been empty for the last five years – and it could be two years or more until residents can move back in.
History
Necropolis Railway station up for sale
An historic building - the last remaining element of a railway station where coffins and mourners left London for a Surrey cemetery - is up for sale with a £4.2 million asking price.
Planning & Development
Winning design picked for LSE's Bankside House development
The winners of design competition to draw up plans for the London School of Economics' massive new halls of residence next to Tate Modern have been announced.
Waterloo
Time capsule buried under Old Vic's new Backstage building
A time capsule has been buried in Waterloo Road as part of the foundations of The Old Vic's new Backstage building.
Planning & Development
'Hedgehog care homes' to be installed next to Old Kent Road logistics hub
Two miniature 'hedgehog care homes' are among the biodiversity measures proposed for the new logistics hub being built by British Land on the former Southwark Council car pound site off Mandela Way.
Planning & Development
Stoney Street: Lib Dems call for rethink of closure plan
Borough & Bankside councillors have called for a rethink of plans for a permanent traffic ban on Stoney Street in Borough Market.
Transport
Elephant & Castle Rail Station in line for £18m makeover
Plans to install lifts to the platforms at Elephant & Castle's Thameslink rail station are to get a boost with Southwark Council allocating £350,000 of developers' funding for design work.
London Fire Brigade
8 Albert Embankment: new planning application 'by end of year'
A fresh planning application for the redevelopment of the former London Fire Brigade headquarters on Albert Embankment is due to be submitted to Lambeth Council this year, a deputy mayor of London has said.
Waterloo
'Visual clutter': another Waterloo billboard vetoed
An illuminated billboard near the Waterloo bus stops at Tenison Way can't be reinstated because it would represent "visual clutter," a Government planning inspector has ruled.
Waterloo
Waterloo billboard 'harmful to public safety'
An illuminated digital advertising billboard next to Waterloo Station is "substantially harmful to public safety," a planning inspector has ruled.
