Proposals from Spot Properties include four blocks up to nine storeys high

Spot Properties has been given the green light for a major mixed use rejig of Butterfly Walk shopping centre in Denmark Hill south London.

The John McAslan and Partners-designed proposals include 146 homes, 41 of which are affordable, in four blocks above the 1990s shopping centre on Denmark Hill.

Butterfly Walk 1

The scheme will also include a hotel and a cinema

Southwark council’s planning committee voted six for and two against the proposals.

McAslan and Partners admitted the scheme involved some challenges, including a part of the site being within the Camberwell Green conservation area and impacts from the development on daylight on surrounding buildings. The existing buildings are no higher than three storeys.

The scheme also includes a 101-room hotel and a two-screen cinema above an existing Morrisons store, with buildings mostly around six storeys in height except one which will be nine storeys.

The glass ceiling covering the walkway which bisects the shopping centre will also be removed and replaced with a new open route planted with trees.

Buro Happold is on the project team as access consultant with SD structures acting as structural engineer, Meinhardt Group on civil engineering duties along with fire consultant Hoare Lee, project manager The Rowe Partnership, QS Andrew Turner and Company, landscape architect Liz Lake Associates and planning consultant Rolfe Judd Planning.

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