8 October 2025 : keith williams architects submits revised plans for rye lane peckham development

Our revised residential led project on Rye Lane, Peckham for developer Reality Holdings has been submitted to Southwark Council for planning approval.

Completely recast from our 2018 consented new build proposals on the same site for the same development team, this submission the final in a series of phased applications remodels and expands the existing dilapidated building, a 3 storey 1960s former office block. Overall the project will deliver 715 m² of retail floor space with 24 residential units above, including the retention of 11 existing apartments, in a development totalling circa 3,100m²  in area.  

Set within the Rye Lane Peckham Conservation Area, Rye Lane is one of the most aesthetically varied and culturally mixed streets in London. The project transitions in scale from the two storey C19th housing on Highshore Road and the Holly Grove Conservation Area to a height of six storeys as the remodelled and expanded building faces onto Rye Lane itself. Here it takes a scale similar to the grander former department store and bank buildings along Rye Lane the area’s main thoroughfare, a number of which still populate the street scene.

Keith Williams commented..

“The existing dilapidated building occupies a very prominent site on the corner of Rye Lane/Highshore Road. The project will provide much needed housing within an appropriately crafted architectural amalgamation of renovation and new intervention.

We have carefully evolved the project in response to the immediate and wider architectural context, whilst marking the building’s prominent corner position with greater height. It is satisfying to be able to retain much of the existing building and structure which greatly improves this project’s carbon footprint and sustainability credentials relative to the earlier new build consented option. Perhaps a little calmer and a little richer architecturally than our 2018 new build proposals, the transformed building will, when approved, help contribute to the ongoing regeneration of this vibrant area”

Externally, on Rye Lane the designs echo the main structural and bay rhythm of the existing building as a cue to ordering the new facades to 3^rd floor cornice level above which the 4^th floor steps back and a lightweight ppc aluminium clad crown at 5^th floor tops out the building. On Highshore Road where the existing building elevation is more random, the designs here are complex as the building needs to transition to the lower scale of Highshore Road.”

Materials are pale buff brickwork with the existing stock brick cleaned and lime washed to match. Windows are bronze anodised ppc aluminium double-glazed frames. 

Client : Reality Holdings

Planning Consultant : Interpolitan Ltd

Project manager : Omniprop Ltd

Structural Engineer : SPH Structures

Energy & Sustainability Consultant : SAPs UK

Daylight & Sunlight Consultant : Joel Michaels Reynolds

Fire Consultant : Innovation Fire Engineering

SUDs : Innervision

Visualisation : RBMP