Opponents of DSDHA-designed proposals to redevelop the site of a disused hotel in Bloomsbury with a much taller tower claim the project team has used carbon-cost figures that “grossly misrepresent” reality in its planning application, an accusation the developer refutes.

The Save Museum Street and Climate Emergency Camden groups say their concerns about the plans to demolish 17-storey Selkirk House in Museum Street are underpinned by research by former Stirling Prize sustainability advisor Simon Sturgis’ Targeting Zero consultancy.

DSDHA’s mixed-use proposals for LabTech, would replace Selkirk House – once the head office of Trusthouse Forte and more recently a Travelodge – with a 21-storey office block that also features apartments on its highest levels.

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