Sheppard Robson has won planning permission for a 12-storey hotel which is being dubbed London’s “greenest building” to date because of its 400,000-plant living façade.

Members of the City of London’s planning and transportation committee unanimously approved the 382-bedroom proposals, earmarked for the site of disused Citicape House office building which fronts Holborn Viaduct.

They were told the building’s 3,700sq m green wall was expected to be the largest in Europe and that developer Dominvs Group claimed it would generate seven tonnes of oxygen a year and extract nine tonnes of carbon dioxide from the air over the same period.

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