Westminster planners are urging councillors to approve AHMM-designed proposals to redevelop a run of shops on Oxford Street and to replace them with a single eight-storey building, despite the objections of Historic England.

The scheme, created for King Sloane Properties and Element Capital, would demolish all but the facades of four buildings on the south side of the shopping street, but preserve more of the grade II-listed No 35, which was built in 1909 to a design by Gilbert and Constanduros.

Two further shops – Nos 41 and 43 – would be demolished in their entirety, the main grounds for government heritage advisor Historic England’s objection to the proposals. The scheme will also erase Falconberg Mews from the West End map.

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