FAQ's - General

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Our revised proposals are to redevelop the land at 257-283 Ilderton Road to provide a mixed-use development of industrial floorspace, affordable workspace and student housing. Our proposals amend our original plans for a mixed-use development of 4,371sqm of self-storage operated by Karbon Self Storage and 651sqm of affordable workspace or “fab labs” together with up to 193 residential apartments and replace it with proposals that contain an uplift in the self-storage to 6,525sqm and affordable workspace to 1,472sqm but replaces the residential component with 615 student rooms in a building of nine to 31-storeys.

Karbon Self Storage is new venture established by EQT Exeter to create a series of self-storage facilities across London and key commuter towns in the UK.EQT Exeter, is a venture created through the combination of Exeter Property Group and EQT in 2021 and is a global leader in real estate investment management. EQT Exeter has 350 million sqft of floorspace across 1,800 buildings under management and has developments of 80 million sqft in progress. Karbon’s facility at Ilderton Road will be its first operation. 

The site is currently empty having previously been leased to Leathams, the owners of 227-255 Ilderton Road, to provide additional space for its distribution centre which has since moved to Darford. 

Yes, this will be outlined as a requirement in the contract that the main contractor selects and employs local people and apprentices at various levels of the NVQ (or equivalent) qualification. It is proposed that a large proportion of these apprentices are recruited locally. 

The project will comply with all Southwark’s employment policy in relation to employing local people as well as aligning to the London living wage program.

Servicing of the student accommodation of the scheme will be from a service yard to the south of the site facing onto Ilderton Road, thus minimising the need for vehicles to stop on Ilderton Road and cause congestion. Positioning of the service yard at the south side provides the opportunity to share this space with the adjacent opportunity site in the future. 

Servicing of the self-storage facility will occur from Sharratt Street. There will be seven covered parking spaces on-site and further two spaces within the curtilage of the site on Sharratt Street.

The student component of the development will be car-free with only one disabled parking space. 

There will be extensive covered cycle parking including 361 resident spaces, six visitor parking spaces, all available at ground floor.