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Mayfair rebuild scheme set for refusal as Westminster targets net zero plan

By 2024-03-27T12:42:00

Savile Row Fathom 1

But Foster & Partners’ proposed retrofit of nearby department store site handed recommendation for approval ahead of next week’s planning meeting

Plans to demolish and rebuild an eight-storey building in Mayfair are set to be refused by Westminster council next week as the borough targets its goal to become a ‘retrofit-first’ city.

Proposals designed by Fathom Architects would see 18-19 Saville Row replaced by a newbuild block of roughly the same size, aiming to address issues with the existing building which developer The Pollen Estate believes are “increasingly rendering [it] obsolete”.

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