Hamiltons Architects and PRP have won planning permission to replace a 1960s car park in Knightsbridge – which has a tunnel leading to Harrods – with a nine-storey boutique hotel.

The practices’ £300m proposals were drawn up for Singapore-listed City Developments and will deliver 120 rooms, a top-floor bar, 2,100sq m of retail space and a spa for the client.

The Pavilion Road site already had planning permission for a seven-storey mixed-use residential scheme of 24 apartments – plus commercial, retail, spa and restaurant space – before the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea approved the latest plans.

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