New headquarters for the Salvation Army in south London

Southwark Council’s approval of the six-storey block at Denmark Hill will allow the charity to consolidate its administrative office and training provision across one location at the William Booth Memorial Training College campus.After demolishing two existing buildings in the western area of the campus, Tate Hindle will construct a block ranging from four to six storeys to house the organisation’s UK and Ireland headquarters.

These are currently run from buildings two miles to the north at Elephant and Castle.A section of the site falls within the Camberwell Grove Conservation Area, and a Conservation Area Advisory Group told councillors that the proposals were ‘not contextual, alien to the character of the rest of the campus and quite without art’.