DSDHA has won Camden Council’s backing to redevelop a five-storey townhouse in Fitzrovia with an 11-storey mixed-use scheme – on a site that is only 5m wide.

Its proposals for 52 Tottenham Street will see the demolition of the current building on the site, which has four one-bed flats and disused ground-level office and retail space. It will be replaced with a scheme featuring ground-floor affordable workspace, three one-bedroom duplex flats and a quadruplex with three bedrooms across the new buildings top four floors.

Members of Camden’s planning committee last week gave their unanimous approval to the proposals, created for RE Capital, which will almost treble the floorspace delivered on the site – from the current 250sq m to 702sq m.

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