Tuesday 29 March 2022
News & features published on 29 March 2022
Green light for office block at ITV's old South Bank site
Controversial plans to replace the former ITV studios on the South Bank with a new office block have been approved by Lambeth's planning applications committee.
Tweets on 29 March 2022
Lambeth planning applications committee has unanimously approved this year’s Between the Bridges @btwthebridges fes… https://t.co/DSTLiEvxAt
RT @C20Society: As this hugely disappointing news breaks - the redevelopment was opposed by the C20 Society, @HistoricEngland and the @Nati…
Conservative MPs have been gathering at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge this evening. https://t.co/s2l2YFLTl2
BREAKING NEWS - redevelopment of former ITV HQ on the South Bank approved by Lambeth planning applications committe… https://t.co/ga0NJa9RFF
Planning chair @CllrJSimpson: "I think it reflects the brutalist style of existing buildings on the on the South Ba… https://t.co/HSWHW0ShZ7
Cllr @IainSimpson: scheme fits in to the South Bank - "a lot of right angles and horizontal lines and clearly desig… https://t.co/2gMbid3OHv
Cllr @GreenPartyScott says South Bank is Lambeth’s "offer to the world" (cf Paris Left Bank) and needs careful deci… https://t.co/7EKaf6ZuFa
Cllr @MalcolmClark77 says the public benefits of the scheme outweigh its negative impacts.
Cllr @benkind says con… https://t.co/OAUszGTUff
Cllr @moseeds acknowledges the "Marmite" nature of the design. He notes that most other South Bank landmark buildin… https://t.co/PjhDGk20Oi
Councillors now debating the application. Cllr Scarlett O’Hara speaks in favour of the scheme: "I do believe it doe… https://t.co/85TNzAnUK7
RT @coyleneil: Great to see two classes from @StJudesSchool today in Westminster - thanks for coming in and all the questions from our comm…
Officer says that the public realm would be open 24 hours a day ("there’s no gates") with round-the-clock security presence.
Cllr @benkind asks about management of the public realm around the new building - will people be told to get off th… https://t.co/IWHb14QAKW
Committee now asking lots of questions about the precise meaning of "substantial harm" and "less than substantial h… https://t.co/FL1BQMRiBA
Now @GreenPartyScott reading out @HistoricEngland’s words about the development - he suggests that council officers… https://t.co/KBLBYJzmOw
Cllr @benkind asked for this view to be shown, illustrating the proposed ITV site development seen from Waterloo Br… https://t.co/7tcDsqRpEY
Lambeth design officer Charlene Henry: "we think it's quite successful in terms of its three dimensional form"
"I… https://t.co/3R8qwbBa8L
Cllr @kevindcraig begins by saying that "this site needs redevelopment" but warns of "immense harm" to local people… https://t.co/QheylP35LQ
Statement from Cllr Jennie Mosley being read out - says the scheme would be a "major eyesore" that would "bring mor… https://t.co/HCo2qoxGke
Architect Frank Filskow of MAKE: "This design is a direct response to the unique character of the South Bank with i… https://t.co/VqyLtlbRqJ
Stephen Black: "We are trying to bring together the local community with workers and visitors to create a vibrant a… https://t.co/IUAmsT0pga
Stephen Black from developers CO-RE: "… the former ITV Studios … is uninviting and makes no positive contribution… https://t.co/2k9TET7Cns
Mustafa Latif-Aramesh - representing @nationaltheatre - accuses council of misrepresenting @HistoricEngland’s posit… https://t.co/F64tgxnwzd
Tom Keller - board member of @coinstreet - says: "We’re not NIMBYs’ We welcome development of the site." Says resid… https://t.co/TuIoR2Fhpu
Representative of @CoopIroko tells the committee: "My living room where I spend the most of my time as one window.… https://t.co/pPSiilRwVq
Ben Oates: "officers consider that the public benefits of the proposal are such as to outweigh the low degree of le… https://t.co/m5XEsunA9n
Officers are now talking about the impact of the proposed development on the daylight and sunlight of homes in the… https://t.co/XKvcXXDEsk
Here’s Lambeth officers’ assessment of the "affect" [sic] of the Mitsubishi office tower on heritage assets includi… https://t.co/s2hmgpxGXY
The Mitsubishi development would provide space for 4,319 jobs across the office, cultural and retail elements, a La… https://t.co/QXihBNXOB3
The idea of the 'London Studios' affordable workspace is to provide space for 'cultural production' as well as 'cul… https://t.co/1hAZom2BC7
Lambeth policy requires some 'affordable workspace' - in this scheme it will be branded 'London Studios' in homage… https://t.co/7d5zZbjust
He says the Mitsubishi development "would provide high quality office floor space that prioritises wellbeing, susta… https://t.co/5bIjeV7YiG
Planner Ben Oates: "The existing ITV complex presents unattractive elevations … [and] … a defensive and unwelcoming… https://t.co/kpu2uZ3bgD
Officers are explaining the conditions being proposed to address some of the concerns of the @nationaltheatre about… https://t.co/zVp8o49Nm2
Here we go ... back in business with sound
Hi @LBLDemocracy we can see the presentation again now, but there's no sound
Hopefully @LBLDemocracy will get the live stream back up soon ...
@LBLDemocracy the live stream of tonight’s PAC is now displaying an officer’s login screen rather than the meeting.
Planning officer Ben Oates was just about to start presenting the application but the live stream has cut out ...
The councillors also visited Victoria Embankment to examine the panorama of the South Bank from near Temple Station
Five members of the planning applications committee and two officers made a site visit to Upper Ground on Saturday… https://t.co/np5B1S6iRt
RT @BBCRadioLondon: Civitas Londinium was created in the 1570s and gives a view across the capital, from the bear-baiting pits of Southwark…
There has been a lively community campaign against the proposals backed by a range of South Bank groups - and local… https://t.co/zIHhFglPfr
RT @patricialondon: Gridlock in tower bridge road/Bermondsey area and lead up to Southwark bridge, exacerbated by London Bridge closed to a…
RT @SouthwarkCofE: Primates from across the global Anglican Communion are meeting at Lambeth Palace this week. This evening they attended C…
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Tonight Lambeth councillors will decide on Mitsubishi Estates' controversial plans to redevelo… https://t.co/8tmp2XQjO4
RT @FloEshalomi: One year ago today I joined â¦@CovidJusticeUKâ© to support their campaign to make this memorial wall permanent. It is a movi…
RT @Afzal4Gorton: Today I was proud to join @CovidJusticeUK as they delivered their petition of over 106,000 to Downing St, calling for the…
Tuesday #coronavirus COVID-19 stats for our boroughs:
Southwark
This week: 2,152 more people tested positive
Last… https://t.co/VMWHvGk6fQ
RT @MPSChaucer: PCSO Richard out & about earlier today with PCSO Forhad from @MPSNWalworth earlier today conducting weapons sweeps & patrol…
RT @Leo_Pollak: Fantastic to see this first rate project recognised - this is the model of beautiful, high density, net zero council housin…
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