Weekly planning news from the Central London boroughs
Camden
Building Magazine reports that. The High Court has refused an attempt by campaigners to bring a full judicial review against the decision to approve a DSDHA-designed office tower near the British Museum. BC Group’s 19-storey One Museum Street scheme was approved by Camden council last year despite being opposed by Historic England, the Georgian Group, Save Britain’s Heritage and the London School of Economics.
City of London
Architects’ Journal reports that Herzog & de Meruon’s revised plans to redevelop Liverpool Street station will be ‘substantially different’ to the hugely controversial scheme previously submitted. For the last few months the Swiss-based firm has been working on a rejig of its proposed overhaul of the central London terminus – drawn up for developer Sellar and Network Rail – following a backlash against its initial proposals lodged in early 2023.
Building Magazine reports that Brookfield Properties has submitted a full planning application for its proposals to build a 240m tall office building in the City of London’s eastern tower cluster. Plans for the 54-storey 99 Bishopsgate scheme revealing new images of the RSHP-designed building were filed with the City of London Corporation earlier this week.
Property Week reports that the City of London has appointed Savills to
City of Westminster
Architects’ Journal competition to design a memorial to Queen Elizabeth II in St James’s Park, central London, will be launched before the end of the year. Ministers said architects, artists and designers would be invited to submit proposals for a physical tribute to the UK’s longest-serving monarch. The memorial site will include a patch adjacent to the Mall at Marlborough Gate as well as land surrounding the pathway down to the lake, including the Blue Bridge.
Property Week reports that losses have increased to £254m at Howard de Walden as asset values fall. The privately held business, which owns and manages a portfolio of mixed-use property across the Marylebone area of London, has revealed a pre-tax profit of £254.2m, which included a £331.8m loss from revaluing investment properties.
The Evening Standard reports that Waterstones is set to return to Oxford Street eight years after the last of the four stores it once had on the West End’s premier shopping destination shut down. The new bookshop will open inside the John Lewis department store near Oxford Circus on 8 October with a range of nearly 20,000 titles.