Southern Grove buys site for £80m project near British Land regeneration site
Affordable housing developer Southern Grove has announced plans for an £80m mixed-use scheme in Canada Water, south-east London.
The 18-storey project, designed by architect Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands known as the Brooklyn, will contain 150 homes and 25,000sq ft of office space on a site called St Olav’s Court besides the Rotherhithe Tunnel.
Southern Grove, which exchanged contracts on the site this week, said it will now seek a housing association as a partner to ensure as much of the housing as possible is affordable.
A planning application will be submitted by the end of October, said a spokesman.
The scheme will be located close to British Land’s 53-acre redevelopment site south-east of Canada Water station. Planning was granted by Southwark council in October for that £3.3bn project, which includes Surrey Quays shopping centre.
The council hopes it will become a new “town centre” with 3,000 homes and retail, office and leisure space.
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