661 new homes and 36-floor tower to be built at brewery

 
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Mira Bar-Hillel25 July 2013

A historic brewery is to be brought back to life after being developed into luxury homes — and a new beer-making house.

The Ram Brewery in Wandsworth, which claimed to be Britain’s oldest brewing site in continuous operation, dating back to the 1500s, stopped production in 2006. This week, planning chiefs gave developers the green light to create 661 new homes while bringing the disused site back to life.

The approved plans include a 36-storey residential tower, as well as new shops, cafés, bars and restaurants.

The site’s Grade II and Grade II*-listed buildings will be restored and brought into public use as a new micro-brewery and brewing museum.

The banks of the River Wandle

will be opened up and a network of public squares and footpaths would run through the site and around the heritage buildings in public open spaces.

The developers will also give Wandsworth £16.5 million in Community Infrastructure Levy which could go towards a redesign of the notorious Wandsworth one-way traffic system.

Ten per cent of the new homes will be affordable, and if the value of the private accommodation rises the developer will provide a further £1.2 million towards building more affordable housing in the local area.

At the meeting on Tuesday night, about 50 members of the public were in attendance as all the borough’s Tory councillors gave the plans their approval, with two Labour councillors objecting.

Nick Cuff, Wandsworth council’s planning chairman, said: “The brewery site forms a gaping hole in the very centre of Wandsworth, surrounded by walls, locked gates and derelict buildings. This development would open it up as a new pedestrian quarter.”

More than 500 jobs will be created with the development, including 266 construction posts.

The Ram Brewery — owned by Young’s — used to stable dray horses, which delivered beer across London to all of Young’s pubs.

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