Pope's Road Public Hearing

Following a request from the applicant received on 31 May to postpone the Representation Hearing for Pope’s Road scheduled for 10 June, without prejudice to the Mayor’s position and any subsequent decision he may make, the Mayor has agreed to postpone the hearing. This is on the basis that:

• Significant concerns have been raised by Historic England and others which would require commensurate changes if these are to be overcome; and

• Re-engagement should involve the local community as well as statutory bodies.

Notice of a new date for the Representation Hearing will be given in due course.

Please note that this consultation is a re-notification following the previous notification on this application which took place in November/December 2021. It came to the Mayor’s attention that some hard copy letters may have been returned to the sender by Royal Mail. We therefore undertook this further round of consultation to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to let the Mayor know their views on the proposal.

On 31 March 2020, planning application (Council reference 20/01347/FUL) (‘the Application’) was submitted to the London Borough of Lambeth by AG Hondo Popes Road BV (‘the Applicant’) for the following development:

“Demolition of existing building and erection of part 5, part 9 and part 20-storey building with flexible A1 (shops)/ A3 (restaurants and cafes) / B1 (business) / D1 (non-residential institutions) / D2 (assembly and leisure) uses at basement, ground floor and first floor levels, with restaurant (Class A3) use at eighth floor level and business accommodation (Class B1) at second to nineteenth floor levels, with plant enclosures at roof level and associated cycle parking, servicing and enabling works”

On 1 March 2021, the Mayor of London issued a direction under Article 7 of the Town and Country Planning (Mayor of London) Order 2008 that the Mayor will act as the Local Planning Authority (City Hall, Kamal Chunchie Way, London, E16 1ZE) for the purposes of determining the Application. Subsequent to that direction, the Applicant submitted revisions to the Application to the Mayor on 24 November 2021, as follows:

• Increasing the term of the Affordable Workspace to 2090. A period of 25 years was originally provided.
• Providing a new Brixton job training fund of £1,000,000 (£40,000 per annum for a period of 25 years).
• In addition to the apprenticeships already provided, the applicant would provide an additional 50% funding for apprenticeship opportunities during the occupation phase.

In addition, the Applicant formally submitted a Whole Life Cycle Assessment (December 2021), Whole Life Cycle Spreadsheet, Circular Economy Statement (December 2021), Fire Statement, Air Quality Compliance Statement, Urban Greening Statement (January 2022), Addendum Energy Statement (December 2021), Be Seen and Metering Strategy and Be Green Spreadsheet on 11 January 2022.

How to view the documents

Copies of these documents are available online at:

• Lambeth Council website at: https://planning.lambeth.gov.uk/online-applications/search.do?action=simple&searchType=Application (using ref: 20/01347/FUL).
• GLA website by following the link below.

Consultation period

The consultation period ran until 4 February 2022. Comments received after this date, but before a decision is made, may still be taken into account; but failure to meet this deadline could result in your comments not being considered.

We undertook this further round of notification to ensure that everyone had the opportunity to let the Mayor know their views on the proposal. If you have already submitted comments to the GLA electronically by email or online you do not need to submit another comment to us unless you wish to raise any additional points. If you submitted a hard copy letter by post to the GLA we would suggest you check whether your hard copy letter was received by emailing us on [email protected] with your details and we can confirm, or alternatively call 07702 825 054. If there is no answer please leave a voice message.

All representations you have previously made on this application received by the London Borough of Lambeth will also be taken into account.

On 16 December 2020 and 16 February 2021 Lambeth advised the Mayor that it was minded to grant planning permission for the application.

On 1 March 2021, having considered a report on the case, the Mayor notified Lambeth that the Mayor would act as the local planning authority for the purposes of determining the planning applications (under article 7 of the Mayor of London Order and the powers conferred by Section 2A of the 1990 Town and Country Planning Act).

The local authority reference for this case is 20/01347/FUL. The GLA references are:

Stage 1 - 2020/5276

Stage 2 - 2020/6774

Stage 3 (called-in) - 2021/0265

You can view the Stage 1, Stage 2 reports online here using the above mentioned references.

You can comment on the application online by following the link below. You can also email us at [email protected].

A public consultation was held between the 26 November 2021 to 17 December 2021. As above, it came to the Mayor’s attention that some hard copy letters may have been returned to the sender by Royal Mail during this consultation and the Mayor is therefore undertaking a further round of consultation. If you already submitted comments to the GLA electronically by email or online as part of this consultation in November / December 2021 you do not need to submit another comment to us unless you wish to raise any additional points. If you submitted a hard copy letter by post to the GLA we would suggest you check whether your hard copy letter was received by emailing us on [email protected] with your details and we can confirm, or alternatively call 07702 825 054. If there is no answer please leave a voice message. All representations you have previously made on this application received by the London Borough of Lambeth will also be taken into account.