Planning & Development

Planning & Development

Neo Bankside: council vetoes attempt to curb evening public access

Southwark Council has rejected a proposal to change the hours during which the public can use the pedestrian routes through the luxury Neo Bankside development next to Tate Modern.

Planning & Development

Hotel conversion plan for Borough High Street office block

Plans to convert an office building in Borough High Street into a 47-bedroom hotel have been submitted to Southwark Council.

Planning & Development

Waterloo phone box can become coffee kiosk, planning inspector rules

A Government-appointed planning inspector has ruled that a defunct red phone box outside the Waterloo Action Centre can be used as a coffee kiosk, overturning Lambeth Council's decision to veto the proposal.

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.

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.

Waterloo

Lower Marsh 'parklets' to be made permanent

An experimental scheme to convert parking bays in Lower Marsh into mini-gardens with seating is to be made permanent.