Foster & Partners has been given the go-ahead to replace a run of 1950s shops and flats in west London with two seven-storey buildings featuring a mix of shops, offices and new homes..

The practice’s Queensway Parade development in Bayswater will be directly opposite its ongoing £1bn redevelopment of the grade II-listed former Whiteley’s department store, which is turning the building into a residential and hotel scheme.

Queensway Parade, for client MB (QW) Guernsey Ltd, will deliver a 10,978sqm office building on the southernmost part of the 0.4ha site, at the junction of Queensway and Porchester Gardens.

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