Demolition is accelerating at the long-empty corner of Putney High Street and Putney Bridge Road. The plan for what happens once the 200-room hotel opens is now public for the first time.
Up to 20 large lorries a week will deliver to the hotel: linen, food and drink for 200 rooms. They will park on Putney Bridge Road to unload, because vehicles of that size cannot fit in the hotel’s rear service yard.
That is on top of a further 26 to 38 smaller deliveries each week for the ground-floor shops and offices that will occupy the same building, most of which will also use Putney Bridge Road.
The figures come from a Delivery and Servicing Management Plan recently filed with Wandsworth Council. The plan, prepared by transport consultants TTP Consulting on behalf of developer Mosser Limited, is required before the hotel can open. The comment window closed this week.
What arrives, and when
The hotel’s deliveries will be 12-metre vehicles carrying linen along with food and drink. The plan says they will load on-street either during the day, between 10am and 4pm, or overnight between 7pm and 7am.
The ground-floor commercial units will bring their own vehicles. A convenience store would typically need two to three deliveries a day, including 10-metre rigid or articulated vehicles, which will also need to stop on the road. A café would receive up to two deliveries a day. Other retail units would each receive roughly one.
In total, the plan estimates between 41 and 58 deliveries a week across the whole building once it is operational, not including removals or tenant changes.
“Absolutely horrendous”
Councillor James Jeffreys, who represents Thamesfield ward where the hotel sits, told the planning committee in February when the revised hotel plans were approved: “Traffic, as I’m sure we’re all aware in Putney, is absolutely horrendous at the moment.”
The committee approved the hotel and left the delivery arrangements to be resolved by condition. The delivery plan is the result.
The hotel also has a Thames Water capacity condition: it cannot open until water infrastructure concerns are resolved. And it has no dedicated taxi drop-off point. The transport consultants previously suggested taxis use Putney High Street outside Boots, Lacy Road loading bay, or Brewhouse Lane.
Nine years on the corner
The site has been a source of frustration on Putney High Street since the original planning application was filed in 2017. Planning permission was granted in 2021. The February committee approval confirmed the 200-room scheme (40 rooms are windowless) after years of delays and a period during which the site sat stalled with squatters.
This week, demolition has visibly picked up pace. As of Friday, the former upstairs interior of the Preto restaurant is exposed and visible from the street. An excavator is working on the site. Scaffolding with dust sheeting remains on the Putney High Street side.
Construction is not expected to complete until 2028. Once it does, the pavement on Putney High Street, which will be closed during building works and replaced with a scaffolded pedestrian corridor, will reopen. And it’s not clear whether the hotel will be Hub by Premier Inn after the company pulled out the market.
The delivery plan application [pdf] (ref 2026/1930) has not yet been determined by Wandsworth Council. When it is, the plan it approves will govern how the hotel operates at the junction for the life of the building.
Surely an off street delivery yard should have been part of the planning application to avoid even more congestion on Putney Bridge Road.