Metashape gets go-ahead for nine-flat Streatham scheme

The practice, which has studios in the City of London and Winchester, received approval for the scheme on Mitcham Lane.

The scheme involves demolishing a low-rise former joiners yard and replacing it with a four-storey apartment block.

A pair of two-bed flats will be created on the ground floor while a single three-bed home will occupy the top level.

The two middle floors will provide six apartments designed for between one and three people each.

Planning documents describe the site as close to both Streatham Park and Garrad’s Road and the Streatham High Road and Streatham Hill conservation areas.

The practice said: ‘The local context is a combination of residential houses and flats with commercial properties primarily along Mitcham Lane … It is located in a highly accessible location and provides substantial cycle parking on a brownfield site.’

Planning documents describe the new building as ‘designed to a high level of sustainability’, adding: ‘Many passive design strategies are adopted including building layout and orientation with dual aspect units.’

Metashape said the building’s envelope targeted improved U-values and airtightness as well as maximising daylighting and using healthy materials.

It added that the procurement of materials from a local source, or with a high-recycled content, would minimise embodied carbon.

‘We will also ensure all materials are responsibly sourced and of low environmental impact where feasible,’ it said.

Lambeth Council approved the application under delegated powers in October.

Source:Metashape Architects

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