Scheme to replace former plan for hotel towers on riverside site
Hopkins Architects’ redesigned plans for a pair of student accommodation towers in Vauxhall are set to be approved by Lambeth council next Tuesday.
The firm’s proposals for two towers of 30 and 27 storeys at 36-46 Albert Embankment have been recommended for approval by planning officers ahead of a meeting on 1 July.
Designed for developers Urbanest and Hotchkiss Ltd, the scheme would 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 would 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 consent is still extant and 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 said a student accommodation scheme was strongly supported on the site and said the proposed towers were of a high quality design which would complement the other tall buildings along Albert Embankment.
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