The mixed-use scheme for the owners of Nolan’s public house on an L-shaped, 0.399m² site was approved at a Lambeth Council planning committee meeting on Tuesday night (14 April).
Councillors voted unanimously in support of the plans for the scheme, which is located on the corner of Hartington Road and Wheatsheaf Lane near Nine Elms station.
Stefan Shaw’s proposal replaces the existing building with a six-storey new building with a public house inserted into the ground floor and basement levels. The existing basement will be retained and extended.
Above the pub will sit 14 residential units, all of which are dual-aspect and exceed national space standards. The scheme will also feature communal terraces on second and fifth floors together with the provision of refuse and cycle storage.
Stefan Shaw Studio said the building ‘draws on the area’s architectural character through a palette of multi-stock red and orange brick, sawtooth glazed tiles and precast concrete lintels’ and that it ‘considered material language that ties the proposal to the fabric of Wilcox Road while giving it a confident identity’.
This includes a curved corner form ‘to reduce the visual bulk and improve the pedestrian experience at street level’.
Planning officers recommended approval of the plans before the meeting, citing the ‘efficient use of the land [for housing which] is supported in policy terms’, while aligning with the heights of neighbouring developments.
The practice had designed an earlier eight-storey scheme with 19 apartments for the same site and applicant, which was submitted in February 2023 and afterwards revised ‘to respond to officer comments received during determination of the application’.