London Realty has gained consent for a major residential-led, mixed-use scheme in Clapham, SW4.
The site at 44 Clapham Common South Side will provide 297 homes in up to 10 storeys, as well as 40,000 sq ft of office space and a dedicated waste transfer station covering 12,500 sq ft at basement level.
The waste transfer station is a requirement because of its “safeguarded” use in planning policy terms. The existing waste transfer facility on site became redundant when the previous occupier, Cannon Hygiene, vacated in the summer of 2016 when its operations were relocated to new premises in Barking and Mitcham.
The site has a licence to dispose of 4,999 tonnes pa.
The new operation is designed to be much more flexible in terms of what it can process, and more specialist. It will also be much smaller – less than half the size of the previous facility – but will still process the same amount of waste – around 1,200 tonnes pa.
London Realty describes itself as a “development management company providing project management and consultancy services for property projects in London”. However, the company is expected to develop the scheme itself, after acquiring the site in 2016 for £42.6m.
The scheme will provide around £900,000 in Section 106 and £4m in Community Infrastructure Levy contributions.
The development isn’t the first where a waste transfer facility is to be buried under new homes. Cringle Dock, on the River Thames near Battersea Power Station, has consent to be redeveloped with more than 400 homes. The waste transfer facility will be more than 100,000 sq ft in size, and will be built out as phase six of the major power station scheme.
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