Westminster City Council is set to approve AHMM-designed proposals to largely demolish a 1970s shopping centre on Oxford Street and redevelop the site with a taller scheme boasting four terraces and nearly twice as much office space.

The practice’s plans for the West One Shopping Centre, above the southern entrance to Bond Street underground station, were tabled to appear before a meeting last month. But the session was scrapped after political control of the authority changed from Conservative to Labour in the local elections.

Under AHMM’s scheme, drawn up for British Land and Norges Bank Investment Management, the top four storeys of the shopping centre would be completely demolished, and its first and ground floor would be partly removed – along with the facades of the retained sections of the building.

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