Westminster City Council has dealt a blow to Pilbrow & Partners’ proposals to replace a 1950s block of flats in Belgravia with a new development of high-end apartments – rejecting the scheme over its low level of affordable housing.

The practice’s plans would have seen nine-storey Kilmuir House on Ebury Street and a neighbouring three-storey house from the same era demolished to make way for the new seven-storey development.

Pilbrow’s U-shaped proposals were broadly the same height as the current block, but they also featured two basement levels with parking for 52 cars.

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