Westminster City Council planning officers are recommending approval for reworked proposals from Foster & Partners to redevelop a 0.25ha site in Mayfair with a mixed-use scheme featuring new homes, a hotel, office and retail space, and bars and restaurants.

Fosters first secured consent to replace the buildings currently the site, which is bounded by Grafton Street, New Bond Street and Bruton Lane, in 2019. However the planned hotel operator for that scheme – LMVH’s Cheval Blanc – pulled out of the project during the pandemic.

Members of Westminster’s planning committee are being told that the 2022 incarnation of the scheme is “largely similar” to the consented version. However the single main building fronting Grafton Street that was originally proposed for hotel use is replaced by two separate buildings, only one of which woud be a hotel.

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