Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners’ reworked proposals to redevelop South Kensington tube station are set to be backed by councillors tonight – but campaigners are still hoping for a last-minute rejection of the controversial scheme.

Members of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea’s planning committee were poised to approve an earlier incarnation of the plans at a meeting in June – but development partners Native Land and Transport for London asked for more time to make additional design improvements.

It was a further dramatic twist in a redevelopment saga for the grade II-listed station and its surrounding area that has seen six practices work up proposals over the last 30 years, only to be confronted by passionate heritage campaigners.

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