Jestico & Whiles is set to win approval next week for a hotel-led reworking of a residential scheme originally designed by Make.

Make’s luxury scheme for the central London riverside site was consented in 2017. Jestico & Whiles’ revised proposals were drawn up for property company Ocubis, following what planning documents described as “a difficult climate” for bringing forward the approved flats – in which “softening residential values and slow rates of sale” had affected the local market.

The design and access statement said Ocubis had marketed the proposals “extensively for over two years but received limited interest due to the significant existing supply of new housing in the vicinity”.

…