We were  appointed by Homes for Lambeth to develop new homes on vacant and underutilized sites across the borough part of their small sites programme. The Jonathan Street site is one of two infill schemes within the Vauxhall Gardens Estate.

Our proposals for the site involve the demolition of an existing single storey portacabin and the construction of a new building ranging between five and eight storeys in height, fronting onto Vauxhall Walk and Jonathan Street. The new building will provide 29 new homes and a new community centre facility for the Carmilita Centre at ground floor. The proposals seek to act as means of urban mediation, reconciling the scale of the point block towers of Haymans and Coverley Point with the surrounding fabric of the interwar estate buildings and broader local context.

The new building has been arranged as a linear mansion block, who’s placement on site follows the chequerboard pattern of the existing towers. Each home benefits from either a loggia or recessed balcony which is connected to the internal living area – creating an outdoor living space. The proposed block and the existing Haymans Point will cluster around an enhanced and upgraded south facing estate garden for all residents.  

The new community centre will offer a variety of spaces to cater for a wide range of events and functions including new workspaces for local SME’s, meeting and conference facilities and a community hall for health, wellbeing and skills training. The three principal spaces have been organised as large flexible rooms, with frontages on to either the street or garden space. A walled garden for the centre forms a permeable edge to the street.

The project achieved planning permison in October 2022.