Matt Architecture’s Westminster mansion blocks approved on appeal

Wilton Road elevation

CLT mansion blocks near Victoria Station ’will sequester hundreds of tons of carbon’

Matt Architecture’s four ”modern mansion blocks” in the heart of Westminster can now be built after a planning inspector ruled the scheme would “attain an exemplary standard of design”.

The contentious proposals were designed more than five years ago but were turned down by Westminster’s planning committee in November last year on design grounds.

The project, for client Vitcorp Ltd, will create 12,250sq m of offices, flats, restaurants and retail.

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