Ken Shuttleworth’s Make Architects is poised to get planning permission for the second phase of its huge St James’s Market redevelopment in the heart of the capital.

The latest phase of its proposals, for a joint venture between The Crown Estate and Oxford Properties, would see the demolition of a cluster of buildings to the west of Haymarket for redevelopment as a single sructure that would wrap around the grade II-listed Carlton Theatre.

Lewis, Solomon, Kaye & Partners’ 1960s St Albans House and Turner, Lansdown, Holt & Paterson’s late 1970s Samuel House would both be demolished in their entirety for the 27,000sq m scheme.

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