Squire & Partners has drawn up proposals for the £70m conversion of Greenwich Magistrates Court into the heritage centrepiece of a new 293-bed boutique hotel complex.

Its scheme for the London Hotel Group would retain the grade II-listed court buildings in Greenwich’s Ashburnham Triangle Conservation Area and two neighbouring disused school buildings.

However it would replace later extensions and alterations – and use surrounding land – to deliver four linear rows of contemporary structures, varying in height from three to seven storeys.

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