Lambeth council signs off plans for 30-storey scheme by Hopkins on Albert Embankment
Lambeth council has approved Hopkins’ plans for a pair of student accommodation towers on Albert Embankment in Vauxhall.
Councillors voted five in favour with one abstention on Tuesday for the redesigned scheme, which was originally proposed as a hotel.
Designed for developers Urbanest and Hotchkiss Ltd, the scheme will replace a Texaco garage on the site with nearly 900 student beds in 769 rooms, with 20% of the rooms classed as affordable, and a public ground floor cafe.
It will join a strip of tall buildings by high profile architects on the embankment which already includes The Corniche by Foster & Partners and Merano by RSHP.
The plans replace a similar scheme approved in 2023 for developer Ocubis which would have seen the towers contain hotel space. This does not expire until December 2026.
Hopkins is the third architect to work on the site since 2017 and its latest planning application is the fourth in eight years.
Plans for a pair of linked 24-storey residential towers designed by Make were approved in 2017 but never implemented, followed by a plan by Jestico & Whiles for towers of the same height containing hotel space which was also never built.
Lambeth’s planning officers, which recommended Hopkins’ latest proposals for approval ahead of this week’s committee meeting, said a student accommodation scheme was strongly supported on the site and described the proposed towers as a high-quality design which would complement the other tall buildings along Albert Embankment.
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