Everitt Road Properties to turn police station into hotel

A former police station in South London could be transformed into a boutique hotel under plans by development firm Everitt Road Properties.

The building on Streatham High Street, which was built in 1912, has been vacant since 2015 after the local police station relocated to a building further down the street.

Now, it could be turned into a 57-bedroom hotel, complete with a cafe on the ground floor.

According to a planning statement submitted as part of the application, the London borough of Lambeth has been identified at a regional and national level as an area suitable for more hotels.

A planning statement submitted to Lambeth Council reads: “The only existing hotel in the area is the Leigham Court Hotel, an 86-bed hotel close to Streatham Hill Station. As a result, the provision of a new hotel at the application site will not result in an over-concentration of hotels within the area.”

As part of the development, a rear extension would be added to the building, as well as a mansard roof.

The document says there will be a hotel lobby, café/reception and stair/lift core on the hotel’s ground floor level, in addition to nine hotel rooms and separate waste/recycling storage.

The basement level will include “storage, plant room and staff changing facilities”, plus eight hotel rooms, with the remaining 40 rooms “dispersed across the upper floors.”

In June last year, Lambeth Council approved a 114-bed Travelodge on the site of a former jazz club, around a seven minutes’ walk from the police station building.

The police station at 101 Streatham High Road shut after a review by the Met and the Mayor of London concluded it was no longer meeting the force’s needs.

Lambeth Council will make a decision on the application at a later date.