King’s College London are to sell their Chelsea College site at 552 Kings Road, SW10, and are to submit a planning application shortly to the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea for a residential and B1 development.
A scheme designed by architects epr proposes the restoration and refurbishment of the listed buildings to provide 260 dwellings and 85,000 sq ft of B1 space.
The historic buildings on the site include the 17th-century Stanley House, the Octagon building and St Mark’s Chapel on Fulham Road.
The business units will be arranged along the path of the recently extended Western Environmental Improvement Route. Proposed vehicular access to the scheme will be via existing entrances from Kings Road and Fulham Road, while all parking will be underground. Later college extensions — said to be unsympathetic to the Coleridge building — will be demolished and replaced by new buildings, echoing what the architects call the college atmosphere of the site.
Jones Lang Wootton are advising King’s College, who are moving to a new complex on the South Bank.
