Stitch Architects has secured planning permission at appeal for a 16-storey mixed-use scheme in south London that will replace a two-storey conference centre in south London with a student-housing-led development that also features space for office or community uses.

Developer Tribe challenged Southwark Council for non-determination of the Avonmouth House scheme, which was submitted in September 2021 and proposed 233 student rooms and 1,733sq m of class-E space for the site in Avonmouth Street, Elephant & Castle.

The authority originally suggested that its reasons for opposing the scheme would include the impact of the new building – which also has two-, seven-, and 14-storey elements – on the neighbouring grade II-listed Inner London Crown Court.

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