Lambeth councillors have approved proposals for a controversial Waterloo office development designed by Buckley Gray Yeoman and MATT Architecture that drew fire from a neighbouring organisation for service personnel.

Buckley Gray Yeoman’s 20-storey office tower and MATT Architecture’s refurbishment of the adjacent 1950s office building Mercury House will deliver 30,352sq m of new floorspace for developer Bourne Capital. The vast majority of the new accommodation will be for office use.

The Waterloo Central proposals, for a 0.28ha site opposite Waterloo Station and a stone’s throw from the grade II*-listed Old Vic theatre, also include around 2,500sq m of bar and restaurant space and 700sq m of retail space.

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