East London-based practice Ackroyd Lowrie has secured planning consent for an “extensive retrofit” that will convert former university buildings in Kensington into a 23-classroom independent junior school.

The firm said its plans for St Albans Grove, around 600m south of Kensington Palace, would tie two historic buildings together with “sensitive, modern interventions” and revitalise the character of the street, which is in the De Vere Conservation Area.

Client for the project is prep-school operator Thomas’s Day Schools, which counts Prince George and Princess Charlotte among the past pupils at one of its Battersea schools.

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