Submitted in September on behalf of developer Helical and Places for London, Transport for Londons (TfLs) property company, the latest proposal features a part-nine and part-15-storey building providing affordable homes and student accommodation.AHMMs scheme would see 44 affordable units in the shorter block and 429 student bedrooms in the taller building. Retail or caf use is earmarked for the ground-floor facing Blackfriars Road and the Cut.The new scheme is two storeys shorter than the 26,500m2 office-led scheme which won planning consent in 2021 but went undelivered. That 17-storey proposal was also backed by Helical and TfL.AdvertisementLike the 2021 plans, the student scheme retains the existing station entrance, designed in 1999 by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard for the Jubilee Line extension. AHMM added in 2021s planning documents that the station would remain operational during construction.AHMM also said in the latest planning documents that the new development would require Southwark tube station to remain operational, therefore no major changes are involved. Separately, Historic England is again reviewing the ticket hall for statutory listing, following a rejection for statutory listing in 2017.Campaigners had raised concerns as early as 2017 about AHMMs early feasibility proposals for a building reaching 30 storeys high would require stronger foundations possibly affecting Richard MacCormacs station design.Under the previous scheme, Bell Phillips would have delivered new homes on the site of the now-demolished Styles House. However, the AJ reported in December 2023 that, despite consent and clearance work, the scheme had been either paused, delayed or cancelled by Southwark Council.AHMM will instead deliver the affordable units on the same site as the above-station development.AdvertisementPlaces for London says there are 93,700 purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) bedrooms in Greater London, meaning there are two-and-a-half times as many students as PBSA beds.News of a redesign on the above-station development first appeared last summer, when a a report to TfLs land and property committee said project backers had recommended redesigning the scheme as a mixed-use PBSA and affordable housing scheme, rather than the office block.There is not yet a project timeline.