The mayor of London has approved Simpson Haugh’s multimillion-pound redevelopment of a Richard Seifert hotel in west London after securing a threefold increase in the number of “affordable” homes going into the mixed-use scheme.

Sadiq Kahn had called in the proposals to replace the 1970s Kensington Forum hotel with a taller scheme featuring 749 bedrooms, 340 serviced apartments and an initial figure of 46 new homes – 20 of which would be “affordable” – last November.

The plans had previously been refused by Kensington & Chelsea council.

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