Westminster council’s planning committee has unanimously voted to approve controversial plans by AHMM to demolish and rebuild an entire city block in Marylebone despite several members strongly criticising the mixed-use scheme’s “nondescript” design.

In a three hour meeting devoted entirely to the project, committee chair Ruth Bush admitted she was “deeply dissapointed” by AHMM’s design proposals for the site and said she “absolutely hated” the prospect of it being built but voted in favour of the plans due to the borough’s need for grade A office space.

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