19/02032/FUL

Change of use of units 78 and 80 into one A3 use (Restaurant/Cafe) together with the erection of a single storey rear extension 78-80 COLDHARBOUR LANE LONDON SE5.

This is a proposal to convert two empty shops into one unit. Both are vacant, one had traded successfully as a coffee shop/restaurant and the other was a laundrette.

The proposal involves creating a new kitchen at ground floor level to the rear in part of the external yard area, utilising existing agreed locations for flue extract (at high level on a concealed flank wall).

Refuse is dealt with at the rear of the store. There is little visible apart from the new shop front ("Aluminium crittall-style"), and the conversion will create a good sized restaurant. This is opposite many of the research facilities at Kings, so should be viable.

The Camberwell Society supports this application and to create a Restaurant Cafe facility in this location. The size will assist viability and with the KCH recent expanded facilities opposite, there should be sufficient demand.