Increased resi provision in new plans for Mortlake’s Stag Brewery
Reselton Properties has submitted revised plans for the redevelopment of the Stag Brewery site in Mortlake, in Richmond upon Thames, to the Greater London Authority.
The subsidiary of Singapore-listed City Developments has upped the amount of affordable housing to 30% of the planned residential units and reduced the number of car parking spaces.
However, this has meant that the overall residential provision has also been increased across the scheme, leading to an increase in the heights of some of the buildings.
Reselton Properties has submitted revised plans for the redevelopment of the Stag Brewery site in Mortlake, in Richmond upon Thames, to the Greater London Authority.
The subsidiary of Singapore-listed City Developments has upped the amount of affordable housing to 30% of the planned residential units and reduced the number of car parking spaces.
However, this has meant that the overall residential provision has also been increased across the scheme, leading to an increase in the heights of some of the buildings.
Reselton said the changes resulted in a less than 15% increase in the gross internal area of the scheme.
The mayor of London called in the scheme in May after the original plans were approved by the local council and deemed incompatible with the London Plan and draft London Plan at the end of July.
The original plans included buildings of between three and eight storeys, comprising up to 667 residential units, 150 assisted living units, an 80-bedroom nursing and care home and up to 50,203 sq ft of commercial, leisure and community space. Only 17% of the residential units were to be affordable.
“While there has been an increase in the number of affordable homes to meet the GLA’s requirements, a significant number of these units are smaller – being aimed at younger or older buyers – and have been partly absorbed into the previously proposed care village and nursing home that have been dispensed with. Because of this we have been able to significantly cut back the number of car parking spaces,” a spokesman for Dartmouth Capital Advisors, which are the development managers for the scheme said.
To send feedback, e-mail louise.dransfield@egi.co.uk or tweet @DransfieldL or @estatesgazette
