Sheppard Robson is set to get the go-ahead for plans to demolish a 1950s office building in the City of London and replace it with a part-seven, part-15-storey hotel.

The practice’s proposals, drawn up for RP Assets – owned by Austrian hoteliers Rudolf and Christian Ploberger – would deliver a 311-bedroom hotel with a ground-floor café and bar and a top-floor restaurant on the 977sq m site of Boundary House at Jewry Street.

Sheppard Robson’s plans will deliver 11,221sq m of new floorspace, almost doubling the current building’s 5,770sq m gross internal area. The hotel will also feature new office space on the ground and first-floor levels.

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