The developer behind the long-delayed hotel at the corner of Putney High Street and Putney Bridge Road has filed detailed plans, and there are signs the development may be larger than previously disclosed.
Mosser Limited submitted a Reserved Matters application (ref: 2026/1930) on 21 May covering the 10-storey hotel and new shops at 31–43 Putney High Street. The filing ends uncertainty about whether the hotel was still going ahead: a change of use would require a different application entirely.
But the awnings on buildings alongside the site on Putney Bridge Road have been stripped, suggesting those properties may also be part of the development. If they are owned by Mosser and included in the Reserved Matters, the footprint of what is being built could be larger than any previously approved scheme.
That would explain something else. In UK planning, a Reserved Matters application must follow an outline planning permission, not a full committee approval. The council gave full approval to a 200-room scheme in February 2026 (application 2025/3946). If this application follows the original 2021 outline permission instead, the design being submitted now may differ from what councillors were shown three months ago, potentially covering different room numbers, a different layout, or a changed site boundary.
The documents have not yet been published on the portal, so what the plans actually contain is not yet known. When they appear, the Design and Access Statement will answer all three open questions at once: what the development now covers, whether the design has changed from February, and who the operator is. Whitbread, which runs the Hub by Premier Inn brand, did not respond to questions about whether it remains attached to the Putney site.
Nine years to get here
The corner site has been in planning since an application was first filed in 2017. After an appeal win in 2019 and outline permission in 2021, Wandsworth’s planning committee approved a revised scheme in February 2026: 200 rooms, 40 of them windowless, with a delivery conflict on Putney Bridge Road left unresolved.
By early May the site appeared to have stalled: no pit lane built, the site office gone. That concern deepened when Whitbread announced 3,800 job cuts and the sale of £1.5 billion of hotel freeholds. Its Premier Inn on Putney Bridge closes permanently on 12 June.
The Reserved Matters consultation will be the first public opportunity to comment on the detailed design. Documents will be published on the Wandsworth planning portal at reference 2026/1930. The statutory deadline for a decision is 16 July 2026.
