Plans for 3,000-home replacement of scrapped Allies & Morrison scheme would be one of the tallest residential developments in the UK
Pilbrow & Partners’ designs for a 70-storey residential scheme on one of central London’s largest vacant developmental sites have been unveiled.
Plans for the £2bn Vauxhall Square scheme would include more than 3,000 homes across four blocks including one of the tallest residential buildings in the UK.
Sketches of the proposals have been included in previous public consultation rounds but the first detailed images have now been revealed for the first time.
By far the tallest development in the Nine Elms tower cluster, it would be 20-storeys taller than a previous version of the scheme designed by Allies & Morrison which was approved in 2013 but only partially completed.
Pilbrow was appointed to redraw the long-delayed project last year by development partners Bmor and Cedarstone Capital, the latest owners of a long-vacant 1.46ha site which has changed hands multiple times over the past 12 years.
The practice’s new proposals would consist of four buildings of 16, 19, 41 and 70 storeys surrounding a 4,200sq m landscape park which is being billed as the “heart of a new centre for Vauxhall”.
Set to be submitted for planning to Lambeth council this summer, the scheme would include 1,200 apartments, 1,250 co-living homes, 600 student beds, a 260-room hotel, 2,700 sq m of office space and 5,000 sq m of retail space.
It is expected to have a gross development value of £2bn and a construction value of around £880m, according to the scheme’s project manager Trigon. Other firms working on the project include planning consultant DP9 and transport consultant Velocity. Exterior Architecture has also been announced as landscape architect.
Allies & Morrison’s original plans for the site, designed for property developer CLS Holdings, would have featured nine residential buildings including two 50-storey towers.
A portion of this site was later sold to student accommodation developer Urbanest, which appointed Howells in 2014 to design a 32-storey tower containing 454 student beds which was completed in 2018.
The rest of the site remained undeveloped with CLS carrying out minor works in order to lawfully maintain its planning consent.
The site was later bought by Chinese developer R&F, which sold it to Hong Kong rival Far East Consotrium for £95.7m in 2022. Cedarstone Capital Partners and Bmor purchased the site with financing from Cheyne Capital for an undisclosed sum last year.
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