671-bed student residence in Great Suffolk Street: council lifts restrictions
Plans for a large Conran-designed student hall of residence on Great Suffolk Street moved a step closer to reality after councillors voted to lift a restriction that limited the use of the buildings to the London School of Economics.
Last November Southwark Council’s planning committee approved the plans by Q Developments for the Conran & Partners-designed scheme known as Moonraker Alley at the junction of Great Suffolk Street and Pocock Street, immediately to the south of Blackfriars Crown Court.
At that stage the London School of Economics was expected to enter a contract to use and run the new residence, and the committee was given assurances by the LSE about the nature of its student body and the management of its residences …