Westminster City Council has given its backing to Squire & Partners-designed proposals for a 10-storey luxury care facility a stone’s throw from the River Thames and Smith Square.

The practice’s plans for care-home operator Medici Lifecare will see the demolition of 1930s Art Deco block Dean Bradley House, which stands on Horseferry Road, to make way for the development. The eight-storey office building is not nationally listed, but is a local “building of merit” in the Smith Square Conservation Area. 

Squires’ proposals are a rejig of a 2017 approval for the site for developer Mayfair Charities. That consent was for a new office, retail and residential block, but it was not implemented.

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