Landmark Court

Landmark Court will provide more than 20,000 sqm (215,000sqft) of new office space, plus shops, restaurants, cafes, flexible small business workspace and new homes. This will bring more than 1,800 jobs to the area and 36 new homes, including 9 for social rent and a further 3 for discounted sale, equating to 40% affordable housing (by habitable room).

New pedestrian routes through the site will reinstate some of the medieval yards and lanes of historic Southwark, an approach strongly supported during public consultation. These lanes will be lined with shops, cafes, restaurants and market stalls to bring activity during daytime and the evening. Smaller retail units have been provided to encourage small independent traders, another key local priority.

The scheme has been designed by local architects Allies and Morrison, as a varied collection of contemporary brick buildings, sensitive to the scale of their surroundings and full of references to the historic Victorian industrial and commercial architecture of the area. 15 Southwark Street, derelict for many years, will be restored as part of the development.

Crossbones Graveyard, a post-medieval burial ground adjoining the site, will be safeguarded from development in the long-term. Today, it is home to a garden of remembrance, which has evolved over two decades as a contemplative space. U+I and TfL will continue to work in partnership with Bankside Open Spaces Trust (BOST), Crossbones Forum and Friends of Crossbones to deliver enhancements and a management plan for Crossbones, including longer opening hours and funding.

Transport for London (TfL), who own the land, appointed urban regeneration specialists U+I in 2017 to develop proposals for the site. If planning permission is granted, work will start in 2020 and is expected be completed in 2023/24.

KEY CHANGES

The revised application has a number of changes:

• Increase in affordable housing to 40%, with a greater proportion of three-bed homes. The overall number of homes has increased from 35 to 36.
• Reduction in overall floorspace, with the Viaduct and West Building both reduced by one storey alongside revisions to the design of the facades.
• 10% affordable workspace introduced, while retaining retail units suitable for small and independent businesses.
• Revisions to Wood Yard to make it more open and introduce an additional retail unit, with a chamfered edge to widen the route through to Southwark Street.
• Amended design of Crossbones Graveyard and Memorial Garden to address comments from BOST, Crossbones Forum and Friends of Crossbones.